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Re: regarding potato images



Robert Guthrie <rguthrie@pobox.com> writes:

> Forgive my ignorance, but I just had to de-lurk to ask this probably silly 
> question:
> Can't you have multiple kernel images on the same cd, chosen via lilo (or 
> whatever boot loader is being used) just like when you have mulitple kernel 
> versions on you computer?

It is based on the El Torito boot standard -- I don't think this is
doable, partly in part due to boot-floppies itself.  But even so, you
couldn't fit 4 kernels and the root.bin on a 2.8MB disk iamge.

But I defer the debian-cd folks.  I don't know all that much about it.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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