Happily using initrd on a 1.44 floppy here, and there should be no reason why
you can't use it for a CDROM distro as well, you can have syslinux on the
CDROM too... I believe their is a a syslinux mailing list to check if you
have problems, and he has recently released updated versions of syslinux.
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I am having trouble getting a 2.4 vmlinuz (bzImage) and initrd
> image onto a 1.44 floppy with all the new stuff. Even a stipped
> down kernel compiled under 2.4 is @ 600K compressed, and I need
> about 800K for the initrd image. I noticed that syslinux
> has some comments about not allowing initrd to span media.
>
> I there something more current that does or will allow me to
> load the inittrd off a CD-ROM device (with vmlinuz and syslinux
> on the floppy). I know how to do this with GRUB (Grand
> Unified Boot Loader), but I want to use syslinux if possible.
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