A single boot/root/rescue floppy can hold a kernel and a compressed dis=
k
image with 3 MB of RAM disk. With the bzimage stuff, you can even go to=
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your regular system after an emergency repair, without another reboot (=
yes,
sometimes that is important).
In fact, I'll go and use that code for regular booting. There's nothing
like having to build just _one_ kernel for a heap of machines with wild=
ly
disparate SCSI adapters... (OK, two kernels -- the math emulator for th=
e
386 I use as a test machine isn't a module, unfortunately...)
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would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in
Vietnam.
-- Spiro Agnew
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