Russell Cattelan wrote:

>On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 14:49, svetljo wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>couldn't we have 2 bootdisk: one  for the kernel and lilo, and one for 
>>the ramdisk
>>smth like debian, the kernel is realy too big it should be much simple 
>>with 2 floppies
>>
>If anybody knows how to create a 2 floppy boot we would be interested in
>the procedure. 
>
Debian has allways used 2 1.44 floppies for install and rescue
the first one is kernel + bootloader +init scripts
the second is  the ramdisk

>This question has come up many times before and there is no real good
>answer for a standard 1.44 floppy.
>
>>Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>>
>>>Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
>>>>Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>retry "mkbootdisk" with it. With XFS, I'm not sure it would suffice, but
>>>>>we can pray (and now I can't do anything else than asking we switch from
>>>>>the Linux kernel to a less bloated kernel if any).
>>>>>
>>>>russel for initrd can we remove the pagebuf module and load it after ?
>>>>
>>>won't change much isn't it ?
>>>
>>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       576672 Sep 14 16:32 xfs.o
>>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        20523 Sep 14 16:32 xfs_support.o
>>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        43796 Sep 14 16:32 pagebuf.o
>>>
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