Subject: Re: tiny and small boot floppies
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/06/2005 16:36:40
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> I'm not sure the normal install floppies will run on a 16MB system.
> There are quite a lot of these still in use ...
>
> Maybe we don't need to provide the boot floppies images, but we probably
> want to still provide the ramdisk images that can be put in a kernel
> binary using mdsetimage.

I think we should provide a script to allow people to take a custom
INSTALL kernel config file, and, from that, create custom boot
floppies. Then we should stop shipping small and tiny.

Perry