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spec rev 1
Partitions should be set up as follows to maintain uniformity and compatability with all BIOSes, both those who support USB_HDD and USB_ZIP booting.
Partitions are to be aligned on 4MB blocks by using 32 sectors/track and 128 heads and using odd start numbers (counting from 1!)
MBR: syslinux MBR bootloader
* partition 1: FAT16 (0x06), 32MB, standard layout, syslinux setup + kernel, marked bootable
* partition 4: copy of partition 1 (yes, in front of part2!)
* partition 2: ext3 remaining part of disk
Using fdisk, the above can be expressed as a session of:
d *
n
p
1
a
1
+32M
n
p
4
+32M
n
p
2
w
Followed by:
mkfs.vfat ''device''1
mkfs.vfat ''device''4
mkfs.ext3 ''device''2
Partitions are to be aligned on 4MB blocks by using 32 sectors/track and 128 heads and using odd start numbers (counting from 1!)
MBR: syslinux MBR bootloader
* partition 1: FAT16 (0x06), 32MB, standard layout, syslinux setup + kernel, marked bootable
* partition 4: copy of partition 1 (yes, in front of part2!)
* partition 2: ext3 remaining part of disk
Using fdisk, the above can be expressed as a session of:
d *
n
p
1
a
1
+32M
n
p
4
+32M
n
p
2
w
Followed by:
mkfs.vfat ''device''1
mkfs.vfat ''device''4
mkfs.ext3 ''device''2