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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] El Torrito?
From:       Hoyt Duff <hoyt () cavtel ! net>
Date:       2002-01-31 21:47:54
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 04:21 pm, you wrote:
> Op do 31-01-2002, om 18:56 schreef Oden Eriksson:
> > On Thursdayen den 31 January 2002 18.27, Pixel wrote:
> > > "Oden Eriksson" <oden.eriksson@kvikkjokk.net> writes:
> > > > Hi fellow cookers... (maybe slightly off topic...) I'm trying to
> > > > figure out how to extract the El Torrito sector from a bootable
> > > > CDROM. Anyone knows how to manage this? --
> > >
> > > you mean the floppy image? it must be on the ISO filesystem, so just
> > > look for something 1.44MB or 2.88MB ?
> >
> > Well, AFAIK the standard is not limited to floppy sizing. I suspect the
> > NT4 el torrito sector contains those three startup floppies. There must
> > be a way to check and rip just those particular sectors.
>
> AFAIK not all cdrom-players can handle anything else than 1.44MB
>

I don't know that it's so much the CD-ROM player as it is the system BIOS; 
some don't support 2.88 MB floppy drives.

Hoyt

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