Re: [TUHS] Pre-init initialization

Yup I remember doing a boot/root floppies with Slackware as late as the early 2000s on an IBM PS/2 Model 95. On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 7:29 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote: > 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. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > >