I really need this. I have one 100Mb and one 210Mb drive, and
partition these drives serves no point. I managed to use the raid
tools and a special kernel to setup the drives, and then mounted
/dev/md0 on /target. Then I could continue the installation.
I have already begun working on the CVS source of the boot floppies to
have this option implemented, but there is one major problem. We need
a 2.2 kernel, which there is no way to fit on one disk. Having all the
SCSI drivers (and some other important stuff) staticly compiled in the
kernel, you will end up with a kernel that is about 950k, and a
modules.tgz that is about 3Mb (!). My first solution was that you have
one boot floppy, one root floppy and two (!) modules floppies. The
root/boot floppies could of course be joined into one big 'CDROM boot
disk'. Thing is, I don't like having a lot of floppies. To would be OK
I guess, and the modules.tgz could be fetched from CDROM/NFS/TFTP so
it is not THAT big of a problem.
But before I add to much energy into this, I would like to know if
there are any interest in this. 'Show me the code, or get it out of my
way', right? I can do this, I just want to know if YOU guys want me to
do it...
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