Re: alpha boot-floppies
Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
> >But we can test root.bin not with FD but with CD-ROM for alpha.
> >I think we had better to go commenting out 'root1440.bin' for now,
> >and when root.bin comes under 1.44M, we add root144.bin again.
CD´s might be a bit expensive, but a partition works fine as well.
> >This way is more efficient than we wait for root.bin to come
> >under 1.44M, because someone(including me) can start to test
> >the correctness of root.bin of alpha just now.
>
> Look, if you can't make root.bin at size 1.44 mb, make it at size 2.88
> mb. Make it even bigger .. whatever...
>
> Without root.bin, you can't make a proper rescue.bin -- without
> rescue.bin, I don't know that we can say anything is building at all.
> You can't just disable it entirely.
On alpha rescue.bin doesn´t contain root.bin, but a 0 byte file. They
should not depend on each other.
MfG,
Goswin
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