Re: suggestion: single net-boot floppy
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:04:57AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously phil@bolthole.com wrote:
> > You boot off the floppy, it makes a ramdisk, and downloads the normal
> > "root" and "drivers" images to there.
>
> So, where do you get your network drivers from then? I'm reasonably
> sure you can't put them all in a single kernel.
That's where the "select your card" bit I mentioned comes into play.
Lets say there are 100 [NIC] drivers that debian includes, and that you
can only fit around 20 in a single-floppy kernel.
So you have a choice of 1 out of 5 possible floppy images to download,
which would be made easier by the HTML quickstart page I suggested.
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