On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 05:46:00PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 04:17:16PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote: > > Excuse me, but RedHat actually boots on my laptop because the kernel > > is _less_ bloated than Debian's kernel. Debian's install disk doesn't > > boot.
Ahem, _Which_ "Debian's install disk"? That's why we have _tecra_ install disks... (except on boot-floppies_2.1.4 we have had those in every boot-floppies version since May 1997, Debian 1.2). > > Red Hat uses a zImage kernel, Debian uses bzImage because it's > > too big for zImage. > > IIRC, for slink, the default kernel is a zImage. Well, it still doesn't work on some laptops... -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]