Re: Woody release?
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:36:41PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> > Size may be more of an issue under the Hurd as well, for linux will are
> > aiming to get the kernel and core components onto 1 floppy. uClibc helps
> > a lot under linux, it saves a few hunder kB compared to glibc.
>
> I haven't paid attention to boot floppies much, but if it's that big
> of a problem, should we simply bootstrap from Linux? Put a Debian
> GNU/Linux bootfloppy that untar's a Hurd base*.tgz, installs grub,
> reboots into Hurd.
Basicly what we are doing now. If people are happy with this, lets us
stick with.
Phil.
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