Re: suggestion: parted disk image(s).

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:35:17AM +0100, Henrik Stokseth wrote:
>    for the convenience of those who uses cdroms to boot it would be nice to
>    have ONE 2.88mb image (boot+program).
>     
>    for instance i have one "system disk" containing all utilities and drivers
>    i need and also various boot images. to boot it i currently use
>    isolinux+memdisk (a part of syslinux). previously diskemu was used.
>     
>    using this setup it's impossible to boot parted, but it would be if a
>    2.88mb image was available :-)

Can't you just join them up?  I should test this, but I think if 
you do "cat image1 image2 | big-image", big-image will work.

>    also images should ideally be exactly the disk size.

Why?

In any case, I plan to encourage people to install the parted image
on their hard disk directly, without CDROMs or floppies :)

Cheers,
Andrew