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Re: more boot floppies questions



Hi,
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:32:14PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote:
> i swear, i read all the readmes and did the websearches, but i don't
> arrive. i am still baffled as to what these driver_[1-4].bin images
> are supposed to be used for - or more likely, how they are supposed to
> be used.
Are you potato or woody?

> but right now, i am wondering why each of the falvors, vanilla,
> compact, idepci, udma66, and safe, come with their own driver-1.bin
> image, but only vanilla has driver-[2-4].bin as 1.44 images available.
> what gives???

Because vanilla supports all archaic CD devices, mca, and pcmcia.  While
others are there with less driver modules (Less disk).

Oh, idepci boot disk has kernel with eepro100 compiled in and not as 
module, that was nice when I did remote install.

Regards,
Osamu
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