On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:59:38AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
  | On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:09:25PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
  |   | There are some laptop's that do not have a floppy drive, but
  |   | they can boot from the CD. Although, there are problems with
  |   | this because the default boot-big.fs will not boot (GENERIC
  |   | will cause problems). I think we could make a new boot image,
  |   | bootlap-big.fs, which can be used to burn a CD for laptops,
  |   | using the GENERIC_LAPTOP kernel (as we do in bootlap{1,2}.fs).
  |   | Any thoughts?
  | 
  | [I assume we're talking about i386 here.  If so, this discussion is
  |  probably better suited to port-i386... ;-]
  | 
  | It's fairly trivial to add another boot image to the release process;
  | it's more a matter of how useful an extra image would be.  Since I've
  | seen a similar request made before, it seems like a few people would
  | benefit from a boot image that can be used to CD-ROM boot an
  | INSTALL_LAPTOP kernel, so I'll add one.

I've just added distrib/i386/floppies/bootfloppy-laptop-big, which
creates "bootlap-big.fs".  Try building that, and seeing how it works
for you.

Luke.