Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel
Noel Grandin (GRANDINJ@telkom.co.za)
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:30:11 +0200
>> Because obviously it seems to be really painful for people to try to
cram
>> in all the PCMCIA tools on a initrd disk on a CD. At least nobody
does it:
>> it seems to expand the size of the required tools enough that both
SuSE
>> and RedHat require that Linux be able to read a floppy. Which you
>> currently can't do if the floppy is connected through a PCMCIA
device.
...
> So, let's look at this issue: installation from a bootable PCMCIA
IDE
> device is difficult, because the most common bootable images don't
> include PCMCIA support any longer, due to space constraints.
Maybe I'm just being stupid, but is there some constraint that
prevents
a CDROM boot image from being large (larger than a floppy image that
is).
I would tend to think not, unless their is some BIOS limit - and maybe
this
can be worked around. If so, adding all the PCMCIA stuff to a CDROM
boot
image shouldn't be difficult.
Cheers,
Noel
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