On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:16:41PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > So you'd rather call these floppy? > > > > I'll note that i386 can boot off floppy, whereas amiga and mac > > cannot. Would another target name be clearer? > > > > I don't care much one way or the other. So far everything will fit on > > a floppy, but I hadn't much been paying attention to size. > > If you need to download a floppy, then boot the native os, and run a > bootloader from the floppy, then it's best to call the image a floppy > image.
You don't. In both cases, you need to download an image, boot the native OS, start a kernel loader which will put the image up as a RAMdisk, and go from there. The difference is that the CD-ROM image will get its udebs from CDROM, whereas the network image will work with the network. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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