Re: syslinux and 2.4.0 initrd size problems

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Jeff V. Merkey] > I am having trouble getting a 2.4 vmlinuz (bzImage) and initrd image > onto a 1.44 floppy with all the new stuff. Check out what Debian did for 2.2 ("potato"). Kernel and syslinux are on a FAT floppy, and a second floppy holds a raw ext2 image, gzipped. SYSLINUX.CFG begins li

Re: syslinux and 2.4.0 initrd size problems

2000-11-27 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:29:08AM -0800, Michael Peddemors wrote: > Happily using initrd on a 1.44 floppy here, and there should be no reason why > you can't use it for a CDROM distro as well, you can have syslinux on the > CDROM too... I believe their is a a syslinux mailing list to check if y

Re: syslinux and 2.4.0 initrd size problems

2000-11-27 Thread Michael Peddemors
Happily using initrd on a 1.44 floppy here, and there should be no reason why you can't use it for a CDROM distro as well, you can have syslinux on the CDROM too... I believe their is a a syslinux mailing list to check if you have problems, and he has recently released updated versions of sysli

Re: syslinux and 2.4.0 initrd size problems

2000-11-26 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 08:22:54PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Why are you posting this to the kernel list? See the SYSLINUX > documentation for the SYSLINUX mailing list address. Never mind. I am rewriting the install init program instead and restructuring the driver organization to do wh

Re: syslinux and 2.4.0 initrd size problems

2000-11-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I am having trouble getting a 2.4 vmlinuz (bzImage) and initrd > image onto a 1.44 floppy with all the new stuff. Even a stipped > down kernel compiled under 2.4 is @ 600K co