On Sunday 03 February 2002 02:39 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > The simplest is the observation that right now 10MB is about what it
> > takes to hold every Linux driver out there. So all you really need is
> > a 16MB system, to avoid a device probing loader. And probably
> > noticeably less than that. The only systems I see having real
> > problems are old systems where device enumeration is not reliable, and
> > require human intervention anyway.
>
> A floppy disk is 1.44 MB.
And el-torito bootable CDs basically glue a floppy image onto the front of
the CD and lie to the bios to say "oh yeah, I'm a floppy, boot from me".
Luckily, they can use the old 2.88 "extended density" floppy standard IBM
tried to launch years ago which never got anywhere, but which most BIOS's
recognize. But that's still a fairly small place to try to stick a whole
system...
> -hpa
Rob
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