>> 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.
Precicely my point...
> 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.
Or use a 2880k boot image rather than the 1440k one currently used,
with the supplementary stuff included in the primary image. That way,
the problems vanish in the first place...
Best wishes from Riley.
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| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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