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From: "Marc Groeneveld" <mgroeneveld@svb.nl>
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Subject: Re: Thanks, and I still need help!
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:13:43 +0200
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Hi,

Making an ext2  filesystem on a zip disk is no problem.

No side effects.

Marc.

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> Van: Luke Davis <ldavis@voicenet.com>
> Aan: blinux-list@redhat.com; General Linux Discussion List
<LINUX-L@mana.landofhaze.com>
> Onderwerp: Thanks, and I still need help!
> Datum: vrijdag 3 juli 1998 7:17
> 
> Houdy!
> 
> First of all: thanks to all of those who gave me advice on my ZIP drive
> problems of a couple weeks ago...
> 
> Eventhough kernels will not successfully build on this system,
> remaking/insting the modules apparently did the trick.
> 
> mount -tmsdos /dev/hdb1 # or hdb4
> 
> Is what now works.
> 
> Q: Has anyone ever tried creating a linux-compatable filesystem on an
> existing zipdisk partition (over top of a dos format)?
> Q: If so: were there any bad effects?
> 
> Now:
> 
> Weather before or after boot is complete, I still need a method for
> redirecting the console to something other than the console: weather it
be
> a local /dev device, or some network device.
> 
> I plan to be using systems in which noone will have access to the
console,
> and therefore I have to have quick access to what ever is comming on the
> console (I can probably count on syslog-ish processes to give me most of
> it, but...).
> 
> Does anyone have any idea on this?
> 
> Luke
> 
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