Changeset 1581 in MondoRescue for branches/stable/mondo/distributions/debian/README.Debian

Timestamp:

Jul 27, 2007, 2:11:55 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

Continue to remove floppy support

File:

• branches/stable/mondo/distributions/debian/README.Debian (modified) (2 diffs)

branches/stable/mondo/distributions/debian/README.Debian

@@ -7 +7 @@
 This is not the official Debian package of mondo but the upstream
 version. Please to not report errors to the Debian Bug Tracking
-System but to <the mailing list>. Thnak you.
+System but to <the mailing list>. Thank you.
 
 IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT
@@ -108 +108 @@
 
 
-Using floppy disks as rescue media
-----------------------------------
-
-mondoarchive will offer to write a set of rescue floppies (unless the '-F'
-switch is used). These floppy disks will only work with the FAILSAFE kernel. The
-reason is that stock Debian kernels don't have the floppy driver built into the
-kernel and that the kernel is too large for one floppy with an initrd and a
-kernel image. Because of the space issue, mondoarchiv (or rather mindi) creates
-a root/boot floppy set. Because the stock kernel does not have floppy support
-compiled in a kernel panic results when trying to acces the second (the root)
-floppy.
-
-Also, building the boot/root floppy images requires that lilo is installed on
-the system. This does not mean that it actually needs to be used to boot the
-system, only that the package is installed. (Because most people won't need the
-boot/root floppies, the mindi package only suggests the lilo package.)
-
-Finally a word of caution: Floppy disks are notoriously unreliable. Dont't use
-them unless you really really have to. (A CD writer costs the same as a few
-boxes of floppy disks these days.)
-
-
  -- Andree Leidenfrost <aleidenf@bigpond.net.au>  Sun,  8 Jan 2005 15:20:05 +1100