From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:11:30 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <7c2c3dcd2b8bae4279c1f758a42de174@plug.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <201009230831.13456.0intro@gmail.com> References: <20100921214147.GA9775@chiron.galaxy> <201009222323.40859.0intro@gmail.com> <201009230831.13456.0intro@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 597ad3b0-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu Sep 23 02:36:00 EDT 2010, 0intro@gmail.com wrote: > > why not partition the CF like a normal disk? > > You means creating a NVRAM partition? > > That could be another option. yes. if you do find a need for the extra space (most CF these days are 1gb or bigger), it's much easier with partitions. doing those calculations by hand can be tedious, error prone and fragile. by the way, if you never plan to share a machine with another operating system, you don't need an fdisk partition table at all. - erik