On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Luca Berra wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:25:34PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> > Not so. I periodically tested the cooker tree for the ability to > >> > create a good install and a running Mandrake. > >> > >> Try this script; it creates a 1680k formatted floppy. > > > >If we want to go with larger floppies with 1.44 MBytes drives, we > >need serious testing. I'm afraid this brings lots of hardware > >problems (and floppies already have much hardware problems). > > > >Not talking about frying the floppy drive, a-la LG? :) > > a long time ago you could pass to the kernel the option root=/dev/fd0 > and it would prompt you to swap the floppy after loading the kernel. >
I do a 2 disk floppy to kick off the install on RS6000: boot floppy:\zimage fake_initrd root=/dev/fd0 rw load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=36000 In this particular case, disk 1 is DOS formatted with zimage on it. Disk 2 had stage1 copied to it via dd. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
