Re: booting/installing debian-alpha
Hi again,
> I think that we shouldn't hold our breath waiting for that. Hence, the
> current set of cdroms will be specific to Alpha, i386, etc. That means
> the /alpha could be removed from the above list of names, which cuts down
> on the amount of typing necessary.
Sure - an alpha-only CD-ROM will be fine :)
> Besides that, are different rescue floppy images needed for different
> archs? I thought the arch-dependent part was milo and vmlinux.gz ...
Yes because the installation procedure actually gets the kernel image it
copies over from the resc1440.bin image. Now it the loop fs was in MILO
we could even load the kernel from inside it... :)
> BTW, if you (Andreas) have a proposal, I can test it on my XL to see if
> the principle works, I have a cd writer available here at work.
Ditto: I also have a CD-ROM writer available to me and will (re)install
both i386 and alpha Debian 2.0-frozen a number of times anyway the next
weeks.
Cheers,
Kristoffer
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