On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 16:34 -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
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>
> FWIW, just tried this:
>
> # mkbootdisk 2.6.6-1.435
>
> With a 1.4 Mb floppy and everything worked well; machine booted
> from floppy without a problem. There was even some room to spare
> on the floppy. Of course, with the machine I tried very few
> modules were loaded in the initrd.
# ll -h /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 315K Jun 14 18:08 /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Jun 14 09:23 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435
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Total 1.5M
Well, with a very small initrd and/or stripped-down kernel seems like it
should work. Guess the kernel has been on a diet. ;^)
Phil
