On 14-Jan-02 Gregory Bond wrote:
>> You can always boot off of boot floppies by making kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
>> images.  It's just that the kernel running during install might be stripped
>> down and thus might not have support for some newer devices.
> 
> Which hardly seems fatal, as any system with those "newer devices" orta have
> a
> BIOS compatible with cdboot (and w2k) in the first place.

Yes, but then who do you target the ISO at?  I'm trying to judge how widely
used the older machines are and if we should still use boot.flp on the ISO's to
accomodate them.

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