> There is, however, one cloud on the horizon. As more and > more win9x machines are "upgraded" to winXP, there are fewer > and fewer users who can execute loadlin.exe. Currently, I > get around this by providing a floppy option for such users. > However, this relies on baslinux.gz fitting on a single > floppy. Unless I can get BL2 on a single floppy (or think > of some other way to provide access to winXP users), it may > not be worth going through the effort of producing BL2.
Hmm... Max compressed root partition you can fit on a floppy is 1.44MB or 1.68MB depending on how accommodating you want to be; that won't give you much room at all, IME. You could use two ramdisk images, though; have the kernel load a root filesystem off the floppy, and as part of your init scripts prompt for disk 2; copy that into your /dev/ram1 and mount that? You could also then provide a small version that boots off one disk and asks for a second (and possibly third), as well as one that boots off the kernel disk, mounts the root off the tail of the disk image or a second disk, then mounts the FAT partition and mounts the rest of the distro from a loopback filesystem... Hmm. Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
