Ken Gentle wrote: > While the LEAF project goals may not include the word "floppy", and even > taking into account the LRP history, there are a lot of posts in the > archives discussing the need/perceived requirement to keep the Bering (and > Bering uClibc) minimal runnable configuration small enough to fit on a > floppy (maybe a non-standard 1.6Mb, but still on a floppy).
I'd guess few people could even run LEAF from a single floppy at present time. I know I can't, and I've never owned any legacy system that could boot from non (IBM) standard disk sizes. Even in the old LRP days with the 2.2 kernel I was required to use a two-floppy setup at one point. "As small as possible" seems to me a much more valid target then trying to stay within 1.44Mb. That said, I do feel that efforts should be made to still allow booting from floppy in future developments. When considering power consumption it still makes a lot of sense to use a legacy system and many of those will simply not boot from CD or USB devices (but will allow using once booted). Gordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
