Re: is rescue really the right word?

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 06:15:48PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > keep in mind that i386 is in the minority here -- most of the other archs
> > still have rescue and root on one disk afaik. on i386, the 2.88M disks are
> 
> No, and many of the other archs don't actually use floppies to boot from.
> It makes even less sense on these architectures (the 68k list is forever
> plagued with people asking whether they need to write the rescue disk to a
> floppy in order to boot their Macintoshes, and how to go about doing this)
> 
> Also sparc and powerpc cannot do library reduction, so they don't have a
> chance of fitting kernel+root.bin on a single 1.4M floppy (we are *very*
> lucky that library reduction could be made to work on Alpha, as without it,
> root.bin would not even fit on a floppy)

Ben Collins told me library could work on sparc too but I did'nt try it yet.
but even with it, I'm afraid it never fit on one disk.  sun4u kernel is still
taking around 1MB compressed!

Regards.

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 Eric Delaunay                 | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y
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