Bug#63132: Drivers not available if no partition available

[Mark van Walraven <markv@wave.co.nz>]

Hi Patrik,

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:59:44PM +0200, Patrik Rak wrote:
> This makes the install process rather complicated in case you need the
> drivers themself to make any partition available. For example, I have met
> with Compaq servers that have only the SMART2 disk array inside.

The SMART2 driver is compiled into the kernel for the "compact"
flavour of boot-floppies.  In the "compact" sub-section (under the
"Layout" section), the top-level README.txt refers the reader to
images-1.44/compact/README.txt, which says:

	[...] includes support for PCI SCSI and IDE controllers,
	and for some PCI RAID and network controllers.

I'll amend this to:

	[...] includes support for PCI SCSI and IDE controllers,
	some PCI RAID controllers (including DAC960 and SMART2)
	and some network controllers.

In general, any target device supported by Linux should be covered
by at least one of the boot-floppies flavours.

Regards,

Mark.