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Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails



Harald Dunkel wrote:
> I can't remember being asked for a driver floppy. All I saw was a
> huge menu to chose some of the strange special CDROM drives.

Yeah, you have to get past that and to the main menu, and then when you
try to load parts of the installer it will have floppy as an option.

> Anyway, lets assume that I don't have a floppy drive in my PC.
> There should be sufficient space on the netinst CD to put the
> SCSI drivers into the initrd.

There is a 2.88 MB limit on the size of the boot image for some CDs. The
comressed size of a full set of scsi drivers for the linux kernel,
excluding scsi raid controllers, is some 750k.

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