Yes, move all the files except the syslinux binary file (I think it is
syslinux.bin off hand). Look at the man for syslinux, it creates the
binary file when you execute the syslinux command for your card. The
binary for one drive will not work on another. So any time you change
to a different size CF you will need to run syslinux on the new card.
Then run syslinux on the CF. Your truncation problem is because you are
mounting the CF as fat16. You want to format it with fat16 which you
will get with mkdosfs. However, when you mount it, you want to run
mount -t vfat /dev/hdX1 /mount/point. Of course where X="the correct
correct hard drive". The vfat will prevent truncation.
Larry.
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 08:17, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:48:57 -0400, Larry Brown
> <larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com> wrote:
> > Thats halarious... This is what I have been using. This is a piece of
> > cake. Put the compact flash in an CF-IDE adapter ($15) in the system.
> > The compact flash cards are pre-formatted as fat16. Download Bryan's
> > recommendation of syslinux and run syslinux on the device file for the
> > ide adapter. IE "syslinux /dev/hdc" if it was the master device on the
> > secondary ide controller. Double check the man page for syslinux on the
> > command. There may be another parameter, but from memory I don't think
> > it was more involved than that. Then place syslinux.conf (I believe to
> > be the name) on the root of the cf with the necessary entries to boot
> > and copy all of your system files over. If you need more help, I have
> > been working on perfecting a RH based distro for CF for months and have
> > a pretty smooth settup going, just e-mail me directly.
> > larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com. Anyone else interested, feel free to
> > drop me a note as well.
>
> Larry,
> >From this I assume that I should be able to just move all of the files
> off of the
> floppy to the partition which syslinux will attempt to boot, and it should fly
> correct?
>
>
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