If someone gets this working, please post the disk on the group. I know
there may be driver problems etc. but thats ok.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Doolittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael J Surette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: Diald and bootfloppy ..
> On Wed, 5 May 1999, Michael J Surette wrote:
>
> > Don't forget you're talking about a floppy boot which copies
> > everything to RAM disk and there is no swap partition to swap to.
>
> Oops, I guess after a few messages I forgot the original problem. In
> fact, I think I missed the original message entirely.
>
> That's a good reason to have the drivers all compiled into the kernel
> rather than loading them as modules. In the latter case, there would be
> two copies of the driver in memory when they were being used.
>
> Is the boot/root disk being removed? If so, I think it's a bad idea: what
> if the power goes down? Then the router would have to be re-booted by
> hand. If the boot/root disk is left in the drive, you could save some
> memory by not copying it into RAM disk and the system would reboot if the
> power cycled.
>
> Ed
>
>
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