Re: 24MB bootable CD install image
>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Bailey-Mortimer <mortian@astracon.com.au> writes:
Ian> One other thing worth doing is documenting how to change the boot kernel.
Ian> It's just a syslinux floppy, so it isn't very hard, but there are some
Ian> symlinks (I found) that need to be added if the kernel version is different,
Ian> and I couldn't get the drivers section to work (maybe because the kernel
Ian> version is different?).
There should be a documented way of generating the matching
`drivers.tgz' also.
The symlinks may soon become unrequired.
Ian> The reason is, the boot-floppies kernel images aren't all the same, and
Ian> don't all work on various machines. For example, my own box at home is an
Ian> Athlon 500 on a Gigabyte MB (AMD chipset) with EIDE (no SCSI); certainly
Ian> the slink boot kernels had problems (CD 1 (default?) doesn't boot, CD 2
Ian> (compact?) locks up if you leave it alone for a few minutes).
Do you have a configuration that works with it? Perhaps we can
generate a `flavor' set for it. I imagine the Athlon's are getting
fairly popular.
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