Re: note on intimate install

According to Chris Jones,
> Hi
>
> (cc'd to Intimate mailing list)
>
> * Tony Godshall (togo@of.net) wrote:
> > In http://intimate.handhelds.org/docs/install-howto/index.html, it says:
>
> [snip]
>
> > : Primary Partition 1: 10MB FAT16

To give the rest a little more context, I also said:

> > You might mention here that tools such as cfdisk tend to
> > round down. In my case, I told cfdisk to make hde1 10M and
> > it only made it 7.4M, so the files didn't fit. I had to
> > tell it to make it 15M. I suspect the tracks are pretty
> > large on the media I am using (a Toshiba 5G PCCard drive,
> > $169 from Good Deals PC!).

> That's a very good point actually, I need to update the docs. If you're
> using a new bootldr (we are getting fairly good results with 2.20.4)
> then the FAT partition needs to be 32MB or bigger, so you might want to
> go a little higher just to make sure. It's a bit of a waste, since the
> installer initrd is only a few mb and there's a much stripped down ulibc
> initrd floating about that is under a mb ;)

Ah, thanks! You also just got me past my next sticking point
(and preempted my next question: "why isn't it working now?")
Received on Sat Jul 26 20:20:18 2003