On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:33:55PM -0400, John R. MacPhail wrote: > As I mentioned above, you should hope to avoid all this floppy stuff. > But it does need clearer explanation. Here are two questions I still > have: > > 1. I was able to boot with floppies made from boot-floppy-hfs.img > and root.bin, but never made any sense out of rescue.bin -- does it > work for anybody? What is it supposed to do?
It's downloaded during installation to install a kernel from. It's not bootable. > > 2. Once we are in ResEdit, modifying the arguments being sent to > the Linux kernel on boot-floppy-hfs.img, what is the procedure for > specifying that root.bin can be found on some hard disk partition > instead of in the floppy drive? No can do. I'm going to try to get more useful video modes onto the 2.2r1 installer, if I have time. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
