Re: Installation Manual Revisions
Thank you for helping us with the Documentation, Ross. I'm looking
forward to reviewing your work. I hope you're a better writer than I
am at this point. 8-)
>>>>> "Ross" == Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
Ross> Third, discuss proper choice of subarchitecture or flavor. For i386, offer
Ross> direct advice like "if memory is limited, use limited memory option. If on
Ross> a laptop, use safe. If using diskettes all the way, use
Ross> compact. Otherwise, use standard."
I think the "safe" flavor is for old buggy BIOS that won't boot the
standard boot disk. It's made by giving a special switch (`-s') to
the `syslinux' boot block installer. My intuition tells me that it's
probably similar to turning off the Lilo `compact' option.
Most laptops will probably work fine with the standard, compact, and
idepci flavors. Mine does, and so does calc's.
"safe" isn't the same thing as what used to be called the "tecra"
disks. "tecra" was a bzImage, rather than a zImage kernel, afaik.
It had nothing to do with the options given to `syslinux'. Am I
right about this, folks? When I installed (what was it? bo or
slink? I cannot remember now) in this same laptop, it required the
"tecra" kernel, or it would spontaneously reboot or lock up loading
the kernel. With our current `boot-floppies' however, everything
just works, no need for a special image. I've booted `compact',
`idepci' and `standard' in it, no trouble at all.
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