On Friday 01 June 2007 20:18, Sven Luther wrote:
> Make sure you grab a copy of the moiboot packages from
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot, before they get erased.
I have saved these for now in my new ~ on alioth. I'll probably move them
under d-i somewhere until someone claims them.
p
Op 01-06-2007 om 00:42 schreef peter green:
> Geert Stappers:
> > I wonder what program keeps track of all the data that comes from
> > the floppies.
> For this to work it would be nessacery to modify the bootloader (iirc
> the floppies use syslinux) to read the extra floppies and do something
> wi
Op 01-06-2007 om 20:18 schreef Sven Luther:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:07:45PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >
> > It would be really great if whatever solution results from this
> > discussion were also applicable to other architectures than x86. My
> > personal interest is in PowerPC (espec
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:07:45PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> It would be really great if whatever solution results from this
> discussion were also applicable to other architectures than x86. My
> personal interest is in PowerPC (especially OldWorld PowerMacs) and
> I'm willing to help
It would be really great if whatever solution results from this
discussion were also applicable to other architectures than x86. My
personal interest is in PowerPC (especially OldWorld PowerMacs) and
I'm willing to help as much as I can with the testing process (I'm
not a developer)
Ri
On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:47, peter green wrote:
> Since we already know the bios can read the users floppy drive (or they
> wouldn't have been booting off it) it would seem to make sense to load
> all the floppies BEFORE loading linux and abandoning the bios's
> services.
Here are the contents o
> I wonder what program keeps track of all the data that comes from
> the floppies.
For this to work it would be nessacery to modify the bootloader (iirc the
floppies use syslinux) to read the extra floppies and do something with them
(say append them to the end of the initrd and pass some kerne
Op 31-05-2007 om 19:47 schreef peter green:
> the current setup for Debian boot floppies requires to load enough
> stuff to boot the linux kernel and read further floppies to be on the
> first floppy, more kernel bloat is making this more and more difficult
> and resulting in reduced functionality
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