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Re: [debian-knoppix] Possible way to use larger kernels



On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:56:53PM -0800, Rib Rdb wrote:

> Would it be possible to create a floppy with either a
> specialized loader (possibly something like lilo, or a
> microkernel or something else) that would read the el
> torrito info from the cd and then run the boot code
> that is on the cd?

Images with 2.8 MB are normaly not a problem.
But there is some old obscure brocken hardware that don insists of 1.4
MB images.

On a lot of hardware hd emulation works, than you can make much bigger
kernels or initrd's.

Christian Leber

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