Woohoo, found the right hack (as usually happens *after* I send mail
:-)
Since I couldn't get it to treat switch disks, I looked more closely
at the image naming code (main.c, misc.c)...
On the same zip disk that I'd already put resc1440.bin on, I skipped
over that to an easy-to-type offset, and dropped root.bin there:
+% dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/sda
+% dd if=root.bin of=/dev/sda seek=3000
1907+1 records in
1907+1 records out
Then booted the zip disk
boot: boot sd(0,5,0)
Then at the silo prompt:
boot: /linux initrd=sd(0,5,0)[3000-5000] root=/dev/ram
(the root= may have been redundant...)
and it worked! The installer is grinding through the badblocks check
even as I type this.
Anyway, if someone would like to turn this into English, it looks like
we have a relatively easy "boot from zip disk" path to add to the
install instructions... (I'd write it up more clearly myself, but it
is 3am. Maybe later.)
Wheeeeeeeeee!
_Mark_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Herd of Kittens
Debian Package Maintainer
