> 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.
>
Unfortunately I've been quite busy at work
the last few days, so I have not had the
time I hoped to spend on the bootdisk issue,
but I /will/ have some time to look at it
during the weekend and I'll post my findings
to the list.
> 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 :)
>
I agree 100% that CD-ROM booting is much
prefered over floppy boot, but still -
floppies are easy to modify for testing
purposes.
> 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.
>
Sure, if single rootdisk boot is not
possible, then dual rootdisk is better than
nothing :-)
-- Jesper Juhl
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