> Paul Greidanus escreveu: > > Hi All > > > > I'm just wondering how many people out there are using the floppy.fs > > installer still? I'm wondering if it would be a worthwhile thought to > > expand past the 1.44Mb limit for the CD and .rd install options if there > > are features that can be added to the installer. No, I'm not thinking a > > gui/menu based installer as the main reason, but there might be benefits > > to something like that. > > > > Paul > > > > > One thing that i miss a lot on floppy.fs is the dhcp client.
All the i386 floppies contain dhclient, so I don't know what you are referring to. > I do the installation using a pen drive, not a floppy, > so it would be nice if there was another image, suited for a pen drive > or other things bigger than floppy. This is harder than it looks, and is on the long term list of things to do to the bootblocks, to further solve the handling between CHS and LBA issues. Right now you cannot simply dd a floppy or larger to a USB drive, and expect it to work. The i386/amd64 boot code can't handle it perfectly. > I know some archs doesn't have the > ability to boot from cd, or usb pen drives, and the only option left is > floppy or pxeboot. But, anyway, it would be nice to have another image > with more things in it, this image could even work as a rescue image. We've got a ton of boot options for each architecture. If we could do more, we would.
