| Date | Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:39:23 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS |
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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.
-hpa
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