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- From: Julian F. Reschke <julian@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: Minixfs protection
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 11:49:01 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9306121344.AA06641@nyx.cs.du.edu>; from "Stephen Henson" at Jun 12, 93 7:44 am
-
- Stephen Henson wrote:
-
- >[...]
- > So the question is this: is there any 'official' way to do this? I
- > can think of all manner of possibilities e.g. setting up the boot sector so
- > the root dir is outside the partition boundary but that may cause problems of
- > its own.
- >
- > Steve.
- >
-
- The `correct' solution is of course to have a special partition type for
- which the harddisk driver returns NULL on Getbpb(). This way GEMDOS never
- will try to access it (this is why we did the extensions in XHDI 1.10).
-
- Regards, Julian
-
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