questions about state of boot disks
Hi Folks: I have just joined this list so I apologize if there is
some FAQ I should read before asking questions, but I'm not sure where
to look for one.
I maintain a debian ftp mirror and have a set of my own boot disks for
a package which I have developed for the blind community. It is a
speech screen review console. I just released a new version of my
package and wanted to produce some new bootable disks, so I went and
got the kernel sources debian package for 2.2.10. I took the .config
from that package to insure I would build a kernel which had all of
the standard facilities built-in of a debian kernel. When I was
finished my kernel was almost 1.1 megabyte. I bet you can guess where
I am going with this. With the standard root.bin there is only about
750k available on the rescue disk for a kernel. So I was wondering if
there are activities afoot to redesign the boot disks or something. I
have temporarily compiled the kernels without scsi support but that
restricts the installation capabilities. I also noticed that I got an
error from the rdev.sh script on the resc1440.bin image when I ran it
on my kernels. It said there was no such device as /dev/ram0. I was
hoping someone could shed some light on this matter for me.
I thank you very much for any help or suggestions you might be able to
give me.
Kirk
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