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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I just wanted to change the disk1.gz to 
> include no X and some modules.  Would the 
> method be similar to what is used to modify 
> bl2 which boots from hd to ramdisk?  

No, nothing like that at all.  disk1.img is *much* 
more complex.

> Would I just modify the files, make a new file 
> image (or whatever it is called) and compress it 
> to disk.tgz and copy it back over the old one?  

Nope.

> How do you make a disk1 image?  I don't really need 
> to run linux from 1 floppy disk on an 8MB computer but 
> I would learn something from this.  

Everything you need to know is in the Bootdisk-HOWTO.

> Someone could modify the installation routine to only 
> make the second RAMdisk if there is more than 8MB RAM, 

Same problem.  The routine is on the first floppy.
To edit the routine, you need to extract the root 
filesystem from the first floppy (not easy).  You
then need to recreate the first floppy with the 
modified root filesystem (not easy).

 
Cheers,
Steven

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