On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:09:34AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > Problems: > 1) My kernel is 1.5M, larger than a floppy! Won't this be a problem? of you try to put in on a floppy, yes.
> 2) Can I somehow mount the boot disk image without putting it on a > floppy and mounting that, to do the kernel image swap? (I'm trying > to do as much of this as possible away from the office, sshing in!). YES! you can do it. i can only speak for the GRUB bootloader, not LILO. if you use LILO, translate to suite your purpose. in your menu.lst, add something like the following: title Debian Bootfloppy test /boot/debian/linux root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/debian/linux vga=normal load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 disksize=1.44 initrd /boot/debian/root.bin /boot/debian/linux is your 1.5M kernel, and /boot/debian/root.bin is the root.bin image of the flavour you want to use. some flavours have more capabilities, like ext3 or reiserfs. make sure if you do that, you append a ``flavour=<flavour>'' to the kernel line. boot, and enjoy! > 3) Although I've installed the boot-floppies package (and deps) on my > potato server, I can't find the promised docs. look in the ``documentation'' directory. plety to go around. -john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
