John <red@computerdatasafe.com.au> writes: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mario Lang wrote: > >> It was quite hard to fit all on one floppy (kernel+initrd), >> so I had to do some modifications by hand (pack >> kernel with upx, and delete all brltty modules >> except ht and ts). > > It's worth noting that if you have a CD burner, then you can use a 2.88 > Mbyte floppy image and use it when burning CDs. BRLTTY is already included in the 2.88 mb image CDROM based installer flavor. > Booting off a LAN is another good way to test. I've not tried booting > from hard drive, but that should work even better. I prefer my current way of testing things: A separate machine with PC weasel installed and connected to ttyS1 of my workstation, minicom on the workstation, and a rs232 switchbox for the braille display cable. > Figuring out what goes on the boot floppy itself can be done later, and > may require a separate driver floppy. I'm not understanding this. If that point is important, could you elaborate? It is not that trivial, since the 2.4.19-386 kernel does have CONFIG_BKL_FD=m, which makes certain things more complicated (like using LOAD_RAMDISK=1 instead of initrd). I could elaborate on the situation if you want, but I think it's a bit too much -devel related to go here. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> | Get my public key via finger mlang@db.debian.org | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list