Re: Kernel for boot floppies

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> For network installs, we could theoretically dispense with IDE and SCSI
> entirely.  This is probably not generally useful, though, since we'd
> still need to support installing off CD and hard disk. 

Nah -- see, once the network is up, space constraints pretty much
disappear, as we can download all necessary disk drivers.

> the point that we never really need both network and disk drivers, esp.
> if we are willing to have two boot floppies (one for network and one
> not).

This is correct.

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