Re: Boot-Floppies
Matt Porter <mmporter@home.com> writes:
> If a user is going to use something as archaic as a 1.44MB floppy to
> install, it shouldn't be too much for them to use a split boot/root dual
> floppy approach. That would leave a lot of space for the rootfs.
Agree vehemently!
> The majority of people will be using CDROM to boot, I'd imagine.
>
> On x86, El Torito allows 2.88MB right?
Yup.
> It seems the constraints we have are the following:
>
> * on all platforms we are limited to 1.44MB floppies (Special case #1)
> * on x86 CD-ROM we are limited to 1.44/2.88MB boot images and any size
> livefs we want (Special case #2)
> * on PowerPC/PReP we don't have any CDROM limitations.
> * what about others?
>
> Just looking at this it seems we only have to modify things for the
> special case #1 since that is the only one that can't fit current size of
> the boot/root images. If I understand El Torito incorrectly, please let
> me know...
It seems to me that we could have 1.44MB boot, 1.44MB root -- that
would be 2 floppies, or else one 2.88 image for el torito.
>From there either a double drivers floppy plus base floppies, or else
a live filesystem on CDROM.
All the other techniques (OS loader, ZIP, TFTP/NFS) could adapt based
on this I believe.
Can we agree?
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