On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, jdd wrote: > Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
> >> * where are the floppies images? Looks like they are cat'ed > > > > They are created by that script you mentioned. Pre-build versions for 10.0 > > are on our ftp server. > > "created"? but from something :-). I try to understand why > it's not done with the bare images, that seems simpler than > a script :-) It's wasting space on CD1. And even more on bi-arch CDs. And they are just that rarely used. > >> * if so why does rawrite still exist in the cd? don't seem > >> anymore usefull. (perl is not that usual on windows :-) > > > > Download the images and burn them. If you think that's too esoteric: we > > usually forget to put out pre-build floppy images and are reminded by > > customers asking our supporters. :-) > > not for me. I write a course on SUSE admin, using old > machines as testbed, so as anybody can afford one. So > floppies are awfull but often necessary (it's surprising how > many computer can't boot from cd :-() If they are that old, you're sure you want to run kde or gnome on it? :-) IIRC desktop PCs started to be CD-bootable around the time Win95 came out. > > You can create 32 and 64 bit images (or bi-arch, if you really have that > > many floppies). > > mkbootdisks can make 32 or 64 bits floppies, I don't really > know why. (can't you start a 64 bit install with a 32bits > floppy?) Ehm, no. You want to run a 64-bit kernel for a 64-bit install. > and this script is smart, but a little too smart for me :-( It's very trivial. It (basically) copies /boot/xxx/loader to a FAT-image and splits it in 1.44MB parts. Steffen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
