Re: questions about state of boot disks
- To: nils@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de
- Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: questions about state of boot disks
- From: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:03:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Message-id: <[🔎] m10zrjX-0006IrC@vanzandt.mv.com>
- In-reply-to: <19990630175358.H19631@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de> (message from Nils Rennebarth on Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:53:59 +0200)
- References: <m10xxeZ-0013oAC@braille.uwo.ca> <m10z8Sr-0006IrC@vanzandt.mv.com> <19990630125730.B23789@molec3.dfis.ull.es> <x7n1xhonvl.fsf@speech.braille.uwo.ca> <19990630175358.H19631@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de>
Nils Rennebarth <nils@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>We really should abandon the notion of the same kernel for installation
>and running.
Okay.
>Good candidates that are not needed for installation are:
...
> - any filesystem other than ext2 and iso9660
I would add msdos and vfat. That lets a user bootstrap himself off a
running DOS system, with no floppies and no CDROM.
> - math emulation (we don't include this now, do we?)
...
Unfortunately, I don't think eliminating all these would save nearly
enough space.
- Jim Van Zandt
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