Re: new installer

[simon raven <simon@nuit.ca>]

Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 16:26:50 -0700, Matt Kraai a écrit:
> 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.

hm, interesting. do you have an URL we can look into, or is it a job
for google? ;)

simon

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