Re: Checklist for boot-floppies release?
> I made an installation 1
> months ago, and the driver-1..2..3 floppies were read goodly.
i'd be interested in knowing how you manage that. the install.sh script on
the drivers floppy definitely doesn't handle tarballs spanning multiple
floppies.
as for how to split up rescue/root -- i am not sure how best to split it up
either without making it too messy. the thing is, if you take out the pcmcia
stuff, raid, and some other non-essential modules, you can fit drivers on
one disk, and that will probably work for a very large proportion of people
who are going to do floppy installs. If you are using raid, you probably
have the resources to not need to use the driver floppy anyway. pcmcia is a
different animal... maybe we can just have a "desktop" and a "laptop"
rescue/root/driver set?
i was in the middle of building a rescue/root disk this morning with a
custom kernel. it had some fluff removed, had some common net drivers
compiled in (eepro, tulip, via-rhine, etc) and was compiled with bzImage.
the image is quite a bit smaller than the stock kernel-image-2.2.13 that we
are currently using. i'll try to experiment more after the new year.
randolph
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