On 17-Dec-00 Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:34:38AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:29:55AM +0100, H.Heinold wrote: >> >> > Hm I am still working on the boot floppies for debian, when I have the >> > time. >> > for mipsel they should work, but I only build them for mips. >> > the problem on mips was the sgi disklabel, but that isnt used on dec. >> >> But SGI's don't have floppies :-) > > Question in charge: Do DECstations really have floppies? Mine do > not... So vor me it's only relevant to have an nfsroot.tgz allowing > me to install further packages... Besides Maxines DECstations don't have floppies. Well, there are some with SCSI floppies but that doesn't count. Anyway, everything that fit's on a floppy would fit into a ramdisk as well. Compile this ramdisk image into the kernel, boot with "root=/dev/ram", et voila... Working on "boot floppies" *does* make sense, IMHO. -- Regards, Harald
