Subject: Re: tiny and small boot floppies
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/05/2005 22:04:06
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 15:41 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> It is becoming increasingly difficult maintaining the
> bootfloppy-{small,tiny} and rescue-tiny boot floppy images.
> 
> If we stopped supporting them, would this materially inconvenience
> anyone? Has anyone here used any of these images recently?  Hardware
> that needs either of these is now quite old, and it is always possible
> to build a custom boot floppy if needed.

It's possible, but how?

I don't mind removing these disk images, provided there is an _easy_ way
to build an installation floppy with a custom kernel in it.  (No,
rebuilding the whole system with a trimmed down INSTALL file is not a
option).

Cheers,

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