Re: Multiple boot images for CD1
If I understand you correctly, the potato version does some of this
already. If you boot your system from the second CD at the start of the
installation, it uses the compact version of the CD to boot from. See:
<http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html>
in particular the last paragraph on the page.
Mike K.
At 01:03 PM 9/5/01 -0400, Carpenter, Dean wrote:
>Guys -
>
>Has anyone given any thought to having multiple boot images on the CD yet ?
>I asked this some months ago and didn't get much of a response.
>
>It's all well and good to have the main bootable image on the CD, but if you
>need the IDE or COMPACT one, you have to make a diskette. It would be much
>slicker to be able to choose the image to boot from during the boot process.
>
>Unfortunately the El Torito standard is pretty poorly implemented by most
>bios's. I've seen about a 50% working rate, where only the first image
>boots. And that's among new and current hardware - slightly older hardware
>is rank ...
>
>I've been messing around with Bart Lagerweij's diskemu for booting floppy
>images, and it looks promising. Essentially, diskemu is the boot image on
>the CD, and allows you to choose the actual image to boot from. You can
>pick from a menu ...
>
> http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
> http://www.nu2.nu/diskemu/
>
>If not diskemu (license, non-Linux, whatever), then is there something else
>we could consider that will provide the same type of functionality ?
>
>--
>Dean Carpenter
>Principal Architect
>Purdue Pharma
>dean.carpenter@pharma.com
>deano@areyes.com
>94TT :)
>
>
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