Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jun 1999 02:55:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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Alan Cox writes:
>> Hell, even I can make a bootable-cdrom that includes PCMCIA support >> (using David's excellent tools) on the initrd image. > > Except that you need two CD-ROM's then. The size of the 2.2 module > set + the full pcmcia scs+net set + the installer + initrd means > the resulting super initrd won't work on an 8Mb computer.
I see an anachronism here.
Most 8 MB systems will need a boot floppy, since they are too old to support CD-ROM boot. When I bought my 133 MHz Pentium system with 32 MB of RAM in 1996, I did not get the CD-ROM boot feature. Since an 8 MB system would be even older (perhaps 1994), there is little need to worry about CD-ROM boots in 8 MB.
Distributions ought to go with a 2.88 MB image on the CD-ROM, possibly with a kernel patched to support bzip2 compression. The CD-ROM boot image should assume that 16 MB is available.
Since boot floppy creation is already for nerds only, one might bring back support for 4 MB machines. Slackware used to (still does?) let the user create and enable swap before starting the setup program.
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