Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Thu, 03 Jun 1999 19:17:35 +0100

rhw@MemAlpha.CX said:
>
> 3. The floppy image realises that to do a CD install with
> this setup, it needs to load a supplementary image from
> the CD.

It can't load a supplementary image from CD - the supplementary image was
never available from the CD via the INT 13h emulation in the first place.

You'd need a floppy drive, and to put the supplementary image on a floppy.

Or recreate the install image as a hard drive image, rather than a floppy disk
image, so it has enough space for the SCSI drivers on it. Note that most
BIOSes apparently don't support this, though.

Or make a _huge_ initrd, and boot with loadlin or something similar which can
read the initrd from the CD.

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