10 Aug
2019
10 Aug
'19
8:28 a.m.
On 8/9/19 6:23 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
In '95, Slackware started releasing on
CD-ROM's, and while there may
have been boot/root floppies, I suspect more and more they were used as
rescue media, since installing from a CD-ROM was *way* more convenient.
The boot & root floppies were how you booted Slackware for a long time.
The CD-ROM was unbootable for quite a while. You booted off of floppy
and the installation scripts would ask you which drive had the CD-ROM in
it to mount and install from.
I'm guesing what you were doing was creating a
kernel plus initramfs
which was sufficient to mount a root file system elsewhere as an
emergency "boot this failsafe kernel off the floppy", perhaps?
I don't think a kernel+initramfs on a single 1.44MB floppy would
have been sufficient for use as an install medium by '99. Or were
you making an emergency USB thumb-drive as a rescue device, maybe?
It was a re-roll of the above boot & root disk set. It was not rescue
media per-say. Though the standard boot & root disk set did get used
for rescue purposes in addition to installation.
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Grant. . . .
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