> Some days ago Chris mentioned that he had problems fitting the rootdisk
> on a single 1.44M floppy.
>
> I took a quick look at SuSE's alpha distribution disks, and they all seem
> to be able to fit on 1.44M. Should there be any problems taking those
> disks apart to see how they did it? I can't think of any!
>
> SuSE : ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/6.4/disks/
>
> I'll look into this tonight unless some other solution has been found (I
> don't think multiple-floppy rootdisks are very attractive).
I would be interested to see what you find out. They will probably do some
weird multi-stage stuff whereby one disk just loads enough stuff to get
the next disk mounted and then loads more stuff into the ramdisk. But
I don't know.
Doing bootable cd-rom is going to be a lot easier and more fun. Hopefully
all floppy drives on earth will die before I have to get the port out :)
Multiple root disks is not good, and I don't like it. But it's good to know
there's something to fall back on just in case. I'm going to do heavy
promotion of cd booting and network booting over floppies and I expect that
all other Slackware porting efforts will be doing the same.
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
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print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
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