Re: better initrd for potato (was Re: debian 2.1r3 needed and release team coordination)

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:
> That will give the user a smaller kernel, that loads faster and uses
> less memory, and probably will fit his needs without having to
> recompile.  That also helps while building different rescue disks.

IIRC, this thread started with the question of whether we should go to
a two-floppy installation set.  I don't think initrd helps shrink the
installation set.  You still have to include all the scsi and ethernet
card drivers.  With initrd, you don't have to compile them into the
kernel, but you still need the modules around.

		      - Jim Van Zandt