From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Javier Sedano Subject: Re: Elks Distribution Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:33:21 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CF4AE71.99E6FCB1@dit.upm.es> References: <20020528163025.M40278-100000@agora.rdrop.com> <1022653610.3cf474aa11daf@webmail2.zoom.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Linux 8086 neil.holmes@zoom.co.uk wrote: >=20 > 1. To have part of the install set be run on linux to allow > production of the required kernel. > 2. To issue a distribution set that caters for every single > possible root location. >=20 Another solution: give a disk image boot+root (or maybe 2, if 360k are used) which boots, fdisks, mkfss and so on. In a different disk (becaus= e I am pretty sure that it won't fit in 720k with all the other stuff), provide 4 kernels, one for each of the 4 possible installation (/dev/bda[1..4]). And somewhere in the installation process, copy the correct kernel to the HD and use bootkit to select it. Anywau, you need to do something similar, right? I mean... the kernel in the boot floppy must have /dev/fd0 as root device, mustn't it? > Neither of those are really in the spirit of the goal of the > project so I have a brick wall looming...... Unless the kernel > experts can help ? >=20 That would be the perfect solution, but may be hard to code... --=20 La indiferencia a las taglines es s=EDntoma de crueldad mental -------- Javier Sedano Jarillo http://www.it.uc3m.es/~jsedano jsedano@dit.upm.es (*) jsedano@ieee.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html