Re: Kernel for boot floppies
Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > For network installs, we could theoretically dispense with IDE and SCSI
> > entirely. This is probably not generally useful, though, since we'd
> > still need to support installing off CD and hard disk.
>
> Nah -- see, once the network is up, space constraints pretty much
> disappear, as we can download all necessary disk drivers.
>
If there is a network
> > the point that we never really need both network and disk drivers, esp.
> > if we are willing to have two boot floppies (one for network and one
> > not).
>
> This is correct.
Or we may have to use seperate driver disks, if we are going to split
modules into seperate flavours we will likely need more flavours than we
had for potato.
This is what led me to my mail about pre-install step.
Glenn
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