Op 01-06-2007 om 20:18 schreef Sven Luther:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:07:45PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
It would be really great if whatever solution results from this
discussion were also applicable to other architectures than x86. My
personal interest is in PowerPC (especially
Op 01-06-2007 om 00:42 schreef peter green:
Geert Stappers:
I wonder what program keeps track of all the data that comes from
the floppies.
For this to work it would be nessacery to modify the bootloader (iirc
the floppies use syslinux) to read the extra floppies and do something
with them
On Friday 01 June 2007 20:18, Sven Luther wrote:
Make sure you grab a copy of the moiboot packages from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot, before they get erased.
I have saved these for now in my new ~ on alioth. I'll probably move them
under d-i somewhere until someone claims them.
On Saturday 02 June 2007 20:08, Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 01 June 2007 20:18, Sven Luther wrote:
Make sure you grab a copy of the miboot packages from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot, before they get erased.
I have saved these for now in my new ~ on alioth. I'll probably move
them
On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:47, peter green wrote:
Since we already know the bios can read the users floppy drive (or they
wouldn't have been booting off it) it would seem to make sense to load
all the floppies BEFORE loading linux and abandoning the bios's
services.
Here are the contents of
It would be really great if whatever solution results from this
discussion were also applicable to other architectures than x86. My
personal interest is in PowerPC (especially OldWorld PowerMacs) and
I'm willing to help as much as I can with the testing process (I'm
not a developer)
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:07:45PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
It would be really great if whatever solution results from this
discussion were also applicable to other architectures than x86. My
personal interest is in PowerPC (especially OldWorld PowerMacs) and
I'm willing to help as
Op 31-05-2007 om 19:47 schreef peter green:
the current setup for Debian boot floppies requires to load enough
stuff to boot the linux kernel and read further floppies to be on the
first floppy, more kernel bloat is making this more and more difficult
and resulting in reduced functionality
I wonder what program keeps track of all the data that comes from
the floppies.
For this to work it would be nessacery to modify the bootloader (iirc the
floppies use syslinux) to read the extra floppies and do something with them
(say append them to the end of the initrd and pass some kernel
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