> A few questions:
> - Will I need to make boot/root floppy images?
- It sure would be convenient. But if it's too much trouble, then I guess
I could manage with a SuSE or Debian boot floppy to prepare the disk and
install the basic packages (but that's just me ofcourse).
> - Would an ISO be helpful? If so, I could crank one off every night or
> every other night. Doing so more often than that on my Pentium 90
> (48 megs of ram) would be slow.
- Since I would have to burn all the packages to a CD-ROM to transport
them to the Alpha anyway (until I get some networking running on it),
then a .iso image would ofcourse be the easiest thing - but I don't mind
downloading the packages and just dumping them to a CD-ROM myself... Like
with the boot/root floppies, it would be convenient but not a necessity.
> - For now at least, would everyone be happy if I just made a generic
> kernel image, or should I make ones geared towards each type of
> machine?
I guess we could start off with a generic one (wouldn't that be what the
default boot disk should use anyway). And then if some peoples boxes have
trouble with that one, then make one or two geared towards the problem boxes.
> - What's everyone's preferred installation device and root filesystem
> device? CD-ROM, network, hard drive, SCSI, IDE, or what?
Install from CD-ROM to SCSI disk in my case.
Best regards,
Jesper Juhl
juhl@eisenstein.dk
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