Subject: Re: Pre-CD state

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 96 19:08 PDT

> Does the current root disk support being loaded as an initrd?

Not yet tested.

> I'm working on a modification to mkisofs which will allow me to produce
> bootable CDs for machines whose BIOSes support this.

Good.

> This should make a no-floppy installation possible. I expect to have it
> ready shortly (after my finals, which end on Thursday). 

If there's an initrd-capable version of LOADLIN you could test it that
way.

	Bruce
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From: Rob Browning <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Jun 1996 22:17:51 -0500

> > bootable CDs for machines whose BIOSes support this.

Just so you know, the ZIP install worked fine once I figured out that
when you said to put base1_1.tgz onto the disk it had to be in a
subdir of root.  This was kind of a headache.  It looks for
/*/base1_1.tgz.  I also didn't realize that I still had to have the
debian boot disk.  I thought someone had said that it would read the
kernel from any disk you gave it.  I guess I misremembered.

Is there somewhere else you can put the boot stuff that it'll find it?

Anyway, other than that, good job.

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Rob

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 96 21:11 PDT

> Is there somewhere else you can put the boot stuff that it'll find it?

I'm going to work on the CD install soon. I should make it look for
/linux and /modules.tgz .

> Anyway, other than that, good job.

How about "good job", period. :-)

	Bruce

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From: Rob Browning <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Jun 1996 23:27:55 -0500

> How about "good job", period. :-)

That too.  Sorry, didn't mean the obvious implication.

Definitely, good job.

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Rob