Perhaps the old style io.sys located in sector zero of the partition isn't needed anymore. I seem to recall hearing something about that around when win98 came out. That perhaps the boot loader knows enough to find the start of the boot data area, read the root directory and do a far jump over to the binary (as opposed to just loading a bit more and getting the start of io.sys) Josh ___SIG___ On Thu, 24 May 2001, Peter Clark wrote: > -- Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > > > Question: why fill all unused blocks with zeros? > > > BTW, thanks for the tip; I think I'll use this. > > > > Because 0s [gz]zips best! If you have trash in the unused blocks they > > will > > needlessly take space in the .gz ... > Duh...<slaps forehead> It wasn't until I thought about it that I > realized that the _whole_ partition would be compressed into one file. > I had just assumed that only the files would be compressed. > :Peter > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >