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Re: Woody release?



On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:36:41PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:

> Size may be more of an issue under the Hurd as well, for linux will are
> aiming to get the kernel and core components onto 1 floppy. uClibc helps
> a lot under linux, it saves a few hunder kB compared to glibc.

I haven't paid attention to boot floppies much, but if it's that big
of a problem, should we simply bootstrap from Linux?  Put a Debian
GNU/Linux bootfloppy that untar's a Hurd base*.tgz, installs grub,
reboots into Hurd.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey




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