Floppy Support

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, 4 May 2003 20:42, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> I suppose it's time to modify the boot loader to
> load a single kernel image from multiple floppies.
> That, at least, would end the continual release
> breakage: the release builder could just create
> as many floppy images as necessary.
>
> I remember the single-floppy installer; I foresee
> the 10-floppy installer coming very quickly. ;-)

Or use modules..
The vast majority of drivers are loadable as modules. It would be feasible to 
standardise the PCI ID tables of drivers and then generate a list from it 
which you can use to load modules for cards you find.

Even now you can load arbitary kernel modules in sysinstall without too much 
hassle. (There is a sysinstall menu for it - I have a patch to this to read 
description files too :)

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