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Re: new installer



On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:17, simon raven wrote:
> 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? ;)
Apparently its builtin into the debian-installer cvs. 
run make TYPE=bootfloppy initrd
from the build dir and that should work.

Im going to review it later tonight.
> simon
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