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Re: new installer



On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:26, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > I have begun to work on getting oldworld to boot. Basically the idea is
> > to take two floppies, one with the kernel and the other with the initrd
> > if we can fit and have the kernel be the one kickstarting the cd.  in
> > the following way the command line should like this.
> > 
> > boot: <kernel> initrd=/dev/fd0 root=/dev/<cdrom>
> 
> I believe joeyh split the kernel and the initrd onto separate
> floppies at the d-i debcamp, but I don't know how.  You may want
> to look into it.
I am still maintainer of d-i 2.6 and I must do a duplicate of his
design.  I wonder what size he got his initrds down to any how.

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Dan Weber
D-I 2.6 Project
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