Re: Freeze Strategy
On Mon 17 Jan 2000, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> 1) The kernel and MILO no longer fit on a single 1.4M floppy. Therefore the
> "rescue disk" won't actually be a rescue disk, but rather just a disk with a
> kernel image and aboot on it, and ARC/AlphaBIOS users will require a
> separate disk to hold MILO and linload.exe. The name "rescue disk" is
> potentially confusing on all non-i386 architectures... oh well...
> suggestions on how to best deal with this in the documentation/etc would be
> greatly appreciated.
Explicitly label the disks "MILO", "KERNEL", "ROOT". I'm still
recovering from my experiences way back when I first wanted to install
RH 4.0 on my multia; the RH docs used the term "boot disk" for the milo
disk and the kernel disk whenever one of these was being discussed; it
took me a couple of days before I figured out they meant two distinct
disks. After all, what's the point of trying to hide details from the
user behind generic terms when those terms aren't really suited; it just
adds to the confusion.
> 2) Since there are just way too many subarchitectures, and since it's now
> possible to compile a generic kernel in 2.2, there will be only one kernel
> and set of modules.
Cool.
Paul Slootman
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