On Wed, 17 May 2000, Bernd Sieker wrote:

> On 17.05.00, 12:40:10, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with the install floppy on an Acer TravelMate 342T,
> > Intel Pentium III 500MHz with lots of Acer hardware.  I could get the
> > INSTALL kernel to boot by using wscons instead of pccons.
> > 
> > Anyway, the question is: is there an overriding reason why the INSTALL
> > floppy uses pccons?  The GENERIC kernel defaults to wscons, so why
> > doesn't the INSTALL kernel?
> 
> The reason probably was that pccons is smaller, since it does not
> support multiple virtual consoles and, since it is i386-specific, also
> saves the hardware abstraction layer that wscons needs.
> 
> But since the standard installation set does not longer fit on a
> single 1.44-floppy, even with pccons, the need to make the kernel
> smaller is not that pressing any more.
> 
> But as to which console is chosen: I know at least one system (an
> oldish AMD Am5x86) that does not work with wscons at all, but only
> with pccons or pcvt.

	Ick - do we have a PR open on this?

		David/absolute
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