Re: boot floppies and syslinux "-s" mode
- To: Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, igor@debian.org, syslinux@packages.debian.org, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
- Subject: Re: boot floppies and syslinux "-s" mode
- From: Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 11:52:24 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19980720115224.C26656@molec3.dfis.ull.es>
- Mail-followup-to: Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>, Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, igor@debian.org, syslinux@packages.debian.org, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.SOL.3.95q.980719224549.19960C-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>; from Jules Bean on Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 10:48:54PM +0100
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On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 10:48:54PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > As CDs are a lot faster than floppies, it's OK to use "-s" for the boot
> > image on the official CDs, but I'm thinking about going back to the normal
> > mode for the floppy images, and adding a README file giving instructions
> > for replacing syslinux on the rescue floppy to build a "-s" floppy, just
> > in case the user has one of the machines that don't like the normal mode.
> > (It as simple as inserting the floppy on the drive and running
> > "syslinux -s /dev/fd0" as root). That information may be added to the
> > install docs instead/also.
>
> Um? How are they going to run syslinux -s if they can't yet boot their
> machine?
They can run syslinux from MS-DOS/Windows.
> There must be, on the FTP site somewhere, a disk image made the '-s' way,
> in addition to the 'fast' one.
I've thought about it, but I don't like the idea of having four rescue
images, slow, slow-tecra, normal and normal-tecra, with that small
difference. But I can be convinced that four images is the best solution.
;-)
Thanks,
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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