From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Fco.J.Ballesteros MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20011114081504.7024919A27@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: [9fans] ideas for a new install procedure Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:18:24 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 22488a42-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 One way would be to ship a kernel with just enough to download another kernel from the network (like the 50M distribution file). Then use that kernel to boot the real installer. I think I like this more than I like dynamic modules for the kernel (which I think I read are being included). But if that's the case, these modules can also be downloaded either from the net or from wherever the 50M dist file is being downloaded. Also, is 9pcdisk.gz using bzip2? If not, bzip2 can reach higher compression rates. Still remember when I had to use `make bzImage' instead of `make zImage' for linux... hth