Re: new debian-cd scripts
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 08:51:11AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > It would be nice to provide a different boot image in each CD, for
> > example: 1st binary CD -> resc1440.bin, source CD -> resc1440tecra.bin
> > 2nd binary CD -> lowmem (currently lowmem doesn't work, this is just an
> > example).
> >
> > That way we may tell the users "if your 1st CD doesn't boot properly, try
> > the second".
> >
> > (I plan to work on 2.88MB boot disks, but that will have to go to slink).
>
> Why not just put all the kernels on the same disc? Bootable CDs can have
> multiple boot images,
Can they? I don't remember seeing any clue about that last time I read
the mkisofs or cdrecord documentation (a few months ago). How does one
build such a CD?
> and the BIOS will show a menu at boot time. The user
> just picks the one that most closely resembles their hardware.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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