Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 15:24:55 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: suggestions for fixit floppy Message-ID: <199506011324.PAA01692@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Suggestion for a small enhancement to the Boot Floppy. I had to repair a bad disk label on my `current' FreeBSD, & used the 1.2M 950210-Snap. (D)isklabel (E)dit Changesize only allows one to edit sizes in Megabytes ... Not helful when one knows the precise sector count required (not a multiple of N Megabytes). I suggest the input routine be slightly enhanced to allow e.g. s130000 to force a sector count of 130000, (as opposed to 130000 Mbyte). It'll add a few bytes of code, but it'll enhance the recovery capability of the Boot Flop, & will add less extra space than the existing N Meg to number of sectors conversion presumably does. (I don't know how the new 2.0.5 boot floppy performs, haven't got one yet.) Julian S
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