Ubuntu installer

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:49:33AM -0800, Chuck Vose wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > FWIW Ubuntu would have floppy install support - boot off floppy, install
> > most of the rest of the bits from the network) if I could figure out how
> > to fit the 2.6 kernel onto a floppy. If somebody could fix this
> > (starting with the debian-installer source package), I'd be most
> > grateful.
> 
> If you're just installing do you need the 2.6? Can't we run a 2.4 or
> 2.2 just to get enough of a base to download a 2.6 kernel + coreutils?

We don't support 2.4 kernels any more in Hoary, and we need the 2.6
kernel to do sane unified hardware detection using hotplug. A floppy
install would produce quite different results otherwise, which would be
bad.

The only way I can see what you suggest working is some kind of
two-kernel monte; I have to say I'm not very comfortable doing this kind
of hack in the installer ...

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]