From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails From: Brantley Coile Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:06:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060420214217.GJ9931@augusta.math.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 423066c0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Gary Kindall had a great one. http://www.dcast.vbox.co.uk/cpm.html. > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:20:56PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: >> EFI requires a FAT-12 formatted FLASH on your mainboard. Licensed IP >> from M$. As is the PCOFF format the binaries use. >> >> need I say more? > > FAT-12? Shesh. You know, I wonder why a more reasonable filesystem format > can't be found for things like this. I mean, it doesn't have to be fancy > (I've often thought that a simple extent-based filesystem with an extent- > based directory structure would be sufficient for, e.g., 9fat), but it doesn't > have to be FAT, either. > > - Dan C.