At 2:33 PM -0700 9/23/02, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
>>  The subject question is apropos of finding boot methods that multiple
>>  OF versions support.  It has been speculated on this list that OF 1
>>  (and others) may support FAT-16 disk partitions if the disk uses the
>>  MBR to partition the disk.
>
>Do we know if OF 1 and older systems support FAT-16 file systems? The
>FAT-16 idea came from OpenBSD, but they only support OF 3 systems (or so I
>found last time I went to their web site).

No, we don't.  I speculate that it might because there is a ms-dos 
filesystem package in OF 1.  Of course that is probably used for 
ms-dos floppies so maybe it has no other function.

>I think what'd work better is:

As I once commented on a Postgres list, the correct way to resolve 
this kind of difference of opinion (if it is) is the Darwinian way: 
Whoever produces a boot mechanism that supports APM on all OF 
versions first wins.  That will likely be you since I won't have time 
to play with this stuff until sometime after next year.

;-)
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