RE: regarding potato images

2001-01-09 Thread Carpenter, Dean
You may want to consider doing a multiple boot image scenario for the CDs. That is, boot a menu that allows a choice of boot kernels to use. Modern bioses will allow multiboot CDs to work, but not all bioses work properly. I only have one (out of nine) system at home that will boot a multiboot

cdimage.debian.org mirror

2001-01-09 Thread Antti
Hello, We are currently in the process of setting up a larger, public FTP-site dedicated to mirroring more popular UNIX-flavours, common utilities/networking-tools and all sorts of drafts and documents relating to the Internet, software-development and many other quite as interesting categ

Re: regarding potato images

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Carpenter, Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You may want to consider doing a multiple boot image scenario for the CDs. > That is, boot a menu that allows a choice of boot kernels to use. Well, if we wanted this, we should use grub, rather than writing a debian-only version. I hate debian-

RE: regarding potato images

2001-01-09 Thread Carpenter, Dean
Will grub work as a CD multi-boot menu system ? I thought it was hard/floppy disk based only. Gary's system works by booting diskemu.bin as a floppy image. That then scans the standard multiboot catalog on the CD for other floppy images, presents a menu and boots the selected one. This wouldn'