On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 09:08:08PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > The best list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The main problem we are > > facing is our official 2.2.x kernels are huge, and there's no way to put > > the kernel and the root.bin image on a single floppy. The proposed > > solution is building a modularized kernel, and loading the needed modules > > using an initrd image, but AFAICT, there's nobody working on that. > > What about the ramdisk/root.bin (and then also for the netboot-ramdisk)? > They are also very huge now. Floppies with 1.7MB isn't good ...
Anybody remember the old slackware adage? The kernel can load its root FS (compressed or not) from a separate floppy. this would bring us up to a measly three floppies for floppy install. Besides, most ppl will be doing CD boots anway.... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org "...Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing..." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson