Re: Reality check!
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 05:46:00PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 04:17:16PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> > 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.
Ahem, _Which_ "Debian's install disk"?
That's why we have _tecra_ install disks... (except on boot-floppies_2.1.4
we have had those in every boot-floppies version since May 1997, Debian 1.2).
> > Red Hat uses a zImage kernel, Debian uses bzImage because it's
> > too big for zImage.
>
> IIRC, for slink, the default kernel is a zImage.
Well, it still doesn't work on some laptops...
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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