Re: debian-installer mechanisms
In message <[🔎] 20040301151740.GA30301@mud>
Wookey <wookey@aleph1.co.uk> wrote:
> Iyonix
> RiscPC
> ------
> Desktop hardware.
> Normal keyboard, mouse, screen
> Can boot from RISCOS (linloader), floppy.
> Install from CD (IDE or SCSI), Net, HD
> Install to HD (IDE or SCSI)
> Lots of funky partitioning schemes
For most practical purposes, except actual implementation, you should
really think of these as the same, except they have different kernels.
That a RiscPC might have a SCSI interface is probably largely
incidental. The partitiong is also identical, and probably for the
time being, I'll stick with acorn-fdisk (a) because it works and (b)
altering the stuff they have to support ADFS and various other things
is surprsingly hard.
Installing from HD in the sense I think is meant probably doesn't make
sense in most cases, but there's probably no reason to disallow it.
> Netwinder
> ---------
> Small desktop/router device
> Normal keyboard, mouse, screen (optional)
> Boot from flash, ?
> Install from CD, Net
> Install to HD
The flash on a NW contains the bootloader. The kernel is loaded from a
filesystem by it. For installs, you'd generally tftp a combined
kernel/ramdisk image, unless you have an obscure thing like a parallel
CD ROM drive.
> Riscstation
Again, this probably essentially the same as RiscPC/Iyonix - at least,
for a system with RISC OS on it. If not, the situation may be a bit
different.
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