Re: Differences between $ARCH's

2001-07-18 Thread David Kimdon
Hi Russell, For x86 we can't fit everything on 1 disk. The first disk (rescue.bin) holds the kernel along with a few device drivers. The second disk (root.bin) holds the root filesystem (system tools and libraries). For the debian-installer project we have fit it all on one floppy, but that is

Re: Differences between $ARCH's

2001-07-18 Thread Chris Tillman
> Hey everyone, > > I've got a question about boot floppies on the various architectures: I just > obtained my first x86 computer and to boot, I have to have two floppy disks: > one rescue.bin and root.bin. I have never used the rescue.bin to boot for > either my PowerMac or my m68k Macintosh. I

Differences between $ARCH's

2001-07-18 Thread Russell Hires
Hey everyone, I've got a question about boot floppies on the various architectures: I just obtained my first x86 computer and to boot, I have to have two floppy disks: one rescue.bin and root.bin. I have never used the rescue.bin to boot for either my PowerMac or my m68k Macintosh. I realize