In message <87acm3nrxj.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>
>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.
>

That sounds like most of the right strategy.  The other part is to 
*test* that that actually works, on a regular basis...

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb