Subject: Re: Switching i386/amd64 to native CD-based installation?
To: Havard Eidnes <he@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/28/2005 12:10:00
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> It's a separate thing what we do with the _SMALL and _TINY kernels and
> their corresponding install sets, though I can easily see us giving up
> on insisting on keeping _TINY to just one floppy. Yes, this will
> increase the minimum requirement on hardware for our default install
> images.
It would be nice if cdboot (or rather bootxx_cd9660) could allow selection
of kernels, so you can use a GENERIC/INSTALL kernel on normal machines,
and some _SMALL/TINY kernel on low-end machines (CD-install, of course).
All this could be put on 1 CD!
- Hubert