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[ILUG] bootable vfat from linux ?

[ILUG] bootable vfat from linux ?

bobb bobb at redbrick.dcu.ie
Thu Feb 5 17:32:58 GMT 2004


Paul Reilly hath declared on Thursday the 05 day of February 2004  :-:

> True - these systems were the same geometry so it was OK.
> I wonder how I can get around systems with different geometry?
> Can fdisk do it I wonder...
 
You only need that Dell partition to be the same size, the rest 
of the disk can be arranged whatever way you want.
You may be able to use something simple like this:

echo "/dev/sda1 : start=63, size=112392, Id=de" | sfdisk /dev/sda

I've only ever automated linux partitioning with kickstart/fai...

- bobb

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