Re: new debian-cd scripts
Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > Why not put a good half a dozen kernels for various common options (coupla
> > different SCSI cards, etc) on the CDs? In fact, surely there's room for a
> > 20M of so base system?
>
> The answer I was given when I asked this was that the area is limited to
> 2.88 megs. However, what about making a small dos area with lilo and some
> kind of menu. It could look at a directory of kernel images asking the
> user to pick one to boot, and then use loadlin. I guess the only problem
> I see is looking at that directory on the cd, maybe it could only be a
> .bat script on the disk.
In fact there are a lot more things that we have to deal with in this way
and we are considering this as a posibility for Debian 2.1 If we want to
localize the disks, we could use this method too.
Luis.
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