On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whether there's any point to all that's another matter. You're only > buying yourself a smaller "rootfs", and you're only doing it by giving > yourself less ways of accessing the first set of udebs you want to > install. If that means you can boot from a single floppy disk, rather > than a boot-root pair, but only because you then need to insert another > couple of floppies to get full versions of libc6 and wget-retriever, > that's not a win. There could be a really small initrd that unpacks udebs from the boot medium into a ramdisk. It would make the boot disk simple, just a boot loader, kernel, small initrd and whichever udebs, any filesystem could be used, even fat, no need for rawrite. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
