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Re: boot floppies and syslinux "-s" mode



> On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 12:00:05PM -0400, Brian White 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.
> > 
> > I think it's too late to worry about it.  Leave it in the slow known-to-
> > work mode.  We don't have time to asses the potential impact of not doing
> > it that way.
> 
> I have built four images, slow and slow-tecra (the same we used in
> boot-floppies_2.0.10) and normal and normal-tecra (without syslinux -s).
> Is it OK?

What are you calling the files (I'll need to change debian-cd to pick up the 
right ones).

Cheers, Phil.
 


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