On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:52:31PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:40:07AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The 'rescue floppy' doesn't even work as this on a whole other bunch of > > > architectures I bet. Can you boot from this floppy on sparc? > > > > Sure. > > > > Only on architecture, PowerPC, is in bad enough shape to require one > > image for actual booting (when possible at all) and other one to > > supply the kernel to dbootstrap. > > > > Wouldn't it be easier to just get the kernel directly from one of the > > 'linux' files lying around, in the case that the user is installing by > > a method other than floppies? This might be an easy, general fix we > > can do for all arches. > > Definitely! But the only times we've tried to address this are when I > need to get potato b-f's out, and I'm not about to try that in potato.
Err, ... I have installed (on i386) potato (r0 i think) from CD, and this is exactly how it works. it gets the linux file and the modules.tar.gz to get the modules. Friendly, Sven Luther
