Re: My impressions installing hamm [was Re: tech proposal to make manoj somewhat happy.]
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 02:36:25AM -0400, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Speaking of which, are there any plans to move to an initrd-based setup
> for the standard kernel image, so that less of those lowlevel SCSI drivers
> need to be compiled into the default kernel?
[...]
> How substantial a change to the boot floppies would this entail? I guess
> the Rescue Disk would have to continue using a monolithic,
> 'one-size-fits-all' kernel, but it also seems like a good idea to make
> the Rescue Disk specifically geared to system rescue, and use a different
> disk for starting the installation.
>
> I know this has been talked about before, and IIRC the consensus was
> 'wait till after Hamm is released'... is it doable, or even desireable,
> for slink?
I want to try that for slink boot floppies, along with a lot of little
improvements. I will post a (sort of) RFC in a few days.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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