Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:
>     From:        Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
>   | It will produce one or more images named disk[1-9].fs.  These are
>   | the new "ustar" format floppies, that enables use of multi-volume
>   | boot media.
> 
> While people are working on how to make installation keep working as the
> volume of data that seems to be essential rises, can some eye be kept on
> install directly from CD (only) ... I don't know a lot about how PC boot
> from CD works, but as I understand it, there's a floppy image on the CD,
> which the BIOS manages to pretend is a floppy, and which it then uses to
> boot.    I doubt there is much option in that scheme for changing the
> floopy to a second one - everrything is likely to be required to be on the
> one emulated floppy image (though I believe that 2.88M floppies images work).

This is indeed a problem and I've been mumbling about it in private
mail with Havard and Ross. I suspect that we need to think about this
a lot more (sigh...)

Perry