Re: Strategy for boot-floppies
Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:
> Have you guys ever thought that the kernel in the boot disks
> doesn't need to be the same kernel installed on the HD?
I think this is very reasonable.
> Once you get this perspective, you may cut off a whole lot of
> drivers from it (I think). Perhaps it even fits with the root
> image again.
Possibly. The problem is that we still need all the drivers for
loading the root filesystem, which might include SCSI (for SCSI
cd-rom), network, etc.
We think we'll have to split root floppy from boot floppy. Maybe mix
in an initrd.
> Of course, there is a downside - in a floppy-only installation
> you get yet another floppy.
We can live with that.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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