Hi Andrew

at 06.06.2010 22:35, Andrew wrote:
> 06.06.2010 22:57, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет:
>> I saw and will see, how it works once we try to build a release.
>>
>> I'd like to note that we do not support a floppy version any longer, with the
>> 2.6 kernel there is no room IMHO to build a floppy version that provides a
>> reasonable set of packages. So we are in need to support CD, USB and HD based
>> versions and shall concentrate on working on solutions (which seems to be
>> easier these days,  than years ago, if I look at the major distributions).
>>
>>    
> IMHO it'll be possible to make 2xfloppy version (1.68 or 1.76M) - one 
> floppy for kernel+initrd (compressed to lzma - now it's still in gzip), 
> other - for config + packages, especially after splitting busybox to 
> small executables + shared library... But somebody really need this?
> But I think that it'll be good to make initrd for PXE booting in future, 
> with package loading via tftp or nfs...

I had this back in the old floppy days, was using wget to fetch the
packages and rerun the init scripts

cheers

Erich



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