On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:13:53PM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote: > But, what I can't understand is, I thought the boot-floppies are broken > because of > this 1.44MB crunching problem, so there must obviously some files or programs > be > missing. I can't understand why the installation seems to work despite this > missing data more or less?
its probably depending entirely on what build someone used. i have since commited a patch to boot-floppies cvs which will cause the build to fail miserably if the root image is larger then the floppy image (the floppy image is always whats shipped as root.bin). > Is it not possible not to have the boot floppies in the 1.44MB format for > users who want to install from harddisk? Or did I not get the point of > the floppies right? boot-floppies are the same no matter how you use them. CDs use the exact same root.bin you download and put on a floppy or put on a hard disk. thats why we restrict ourselves to having a ramdisk no larger then 1440k (it also allows installation on low memory systems as well). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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