On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:16:49 -0800 (PST), Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > 
> > I thought the reading of the miniroot after boot would need the kernel's
> > floppy driver.
> 
> ???  I thought the miniroot image was built right into the kernel
> image file?  Well, yeah, miniroot used to be a separate image file a
> while ago...  Can it still be?

I'm not sure. I know thw ustar stuff lets the alpha and i386 use two boot
floppies. I also thought miniroots were totally in the kernel. I didn't
think you had to have both floppies read to boot, so I'm not sure how it's
done. :-)

> > I certainly hope we don't ahve to wait for two 800K disks
> > to be fully read before we can start booting! :-)
> 
> I have doubts 800K is enough...

I agree. Thus two disks. :-)

Take care,

Bill