On Apr 06, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Chris Lawrence is willing to do tests with isolinux, please continue as > we may want to try that if we have troubles with the actual > multiboot stuff. Feel free to prepare a patch too. :) It may also > have more interesting features (no size limit on the boot > image, more configurable menu and so on).
Ok, I have put together some files to make the isolinux idea work, swiping quite a bit from the boot-floppies CVS (mainly the text files for f1-f10 and the intro screen). The only file in debian-cd that I had to modify was tools/boot/woody/boot-i386, and the changes are are enabled with a $ISOLINUX setting in CONF.sh . CDs 2-4 keep the "old" boot sector images. This actually *frees* space on the ISO (about 1 MB), as only the root disk needs to be included separately in the isolinux directory, and the boot sector is not a full floppy image. How it works: on boot, it displays a screen similar to the rescue floppy's first screen. The F-keys are the same; the only real changes are on F3, where you can choose from: dbootstrap: (loads root.bin with the same options written to install.bat) linux or idepci (default) bf24 compact vanilla And these rescue settings: (noinitrd) rescue rescbf24 resccomp rescvanl Anyway, I burned a CD and tested it, and it seems to work OK. I'll post a URL for downloading it for testing as soon as it gets done rsyncing. Note that this will be a 185MB 5cm/3in CD image. It contains all of the base system and standard, so you can treat it as a normal CD #1; just make sure you have a network connection to install anything other than the 229 packages that are on it when you set up APT. Anyway, let me know what you think; I'll put together a patch against CVS debian-cd once I'm sure it's all OK. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
