On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, jdd wrote:
Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
* where are the floppies images? Looks like they are cat'ed
They are created by that script you mentioned. Pre-build versions for 10.0 are on our ftp server.
"created"? but from something :-). I try to understand why it's not done with the bare images, that seems simpler than a script :-)
It's wasting space on CD1. And even more on bi-arch CDs. And they are just that rarely used.
* if so why does rawrite still exist in the cd? don't seem anymore usefull. (perl is not that usual on windows :-)
Download the images and burn them. If you think that's too esoteric: we usually forget to put out pre-build floppy images and are reminded by customers asking our supporters. :-)
not for me. I write a course on SUSE admin, using old machines as testbed, so as anybody can afford one. So floppies are awfull but often necessary (it's surprising how many computer can't boot from cd :-()
If they are that old, you're sure you want to run kde or gnome on it? :-) IIRC desktop PCs started to be CD-bootable around the time Win95 came out.
You can create 32 and 64 bit images (or bi-arch, if you really have that many floppies).
mkbootdisks can make 32 or 64 bits floppies, I don't really know why. (can't you start a 64 bit install with a 32bits floppy?)
Ehm, no. You want to run a 64-bit kernel for a 64-bit install.
and this script is smart, but a little too smart for me :-(
It's very trivial. It (basically) copies /boot/xxx/loader to a FAT-image and splits it in 1.44MB parts. Steffen