Op 01-06-2007 om 00:42 schreef peter green: > Geert Stappers: > > I wonder what program keeps track of all the data that comes from > > the floppies. > For this to work it would be nessacery to modify the bootloader (iirc > the floppies use syslinux) to read the extra floppies and do something > with them (say append them to the end of the initrd and pass some > kernel parameters with information on where they are in the initrd) > so d-i could find them later.
If only booting from floppy possible is[1], I recomment a floppy that makes network boot possible[2]. For i386 and amd64 there is Etherboot[3] See also the universal bootfloppy from Josh Lehan [4] Cheers Geert Stappers [1] no CD-ROM boot, no network boot. [2] Yes, that means you need a second computer or you should have friends with a computer. [3] http://etherboot.org [4] ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
