Re: Reality check!
"M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> I would see this as a RH-style - so a rather bloated kernel which includes
> lots of stuff as standard, and asks them the pertinent questions all at
> once at the beginning, and then gets on with it.
Excuse me, but RedHat actually boots on my laptop because the kernel
is _less_ bloated than Debian's kernel. Debian's install disk doesn't
boot. Red Hat uses a zImage kernel, Debian uses bzImage because it's
too big for zImage.
(How do they do it? For the install floppy they load the drivers
after booting, and for subsequent boots they use initrd.)
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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