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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> If you ever redo BL3 2-floppy, you could put the 
> modules on disk 1 and the man pages on disk 2 

No, that wouldn't work.  manpages are 97kb.
modules are 338kb.  There simply isn't room
on the first floppy for such a switch.

> to make disk1 more useful as a single disk linux.

It's not meant to be a single-disk Linux (there are
plenty of those available already).  The 2-floppy 
BL3 is a temporary Linux whose primary purpose is 
to install itself to HD.

I only mentioned that the first floppy was self-sufficient
because we were discussing boot floppies and root floppies.  
I thought you might find it interesting that the first BL3 
floppy is a combined boot/root floppy.
 
> If you are not too busy I would be very interested to get 
> a general idea of how you made the disk images for BL3.

disk1.img is a boot/root floppy.  lilo, zimage and root
filesystem (compressed) are written directly to the floppy 
using the method shown in the bootdisk-HOWTO.

disk2.tgz is really just a BL3 package.  /etc/rc (from the
first floppy) installs it.  You could put a different package
on the second floppy -- as long as you call it disk2.tgz, it
will be automatically installed.

Cheers,
Steven

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