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boot.kernel.org software

Posted Jul 23, 2009 21:35 UTC (Thu) by dannf (subscriber, #7105)
Parent article: A kernel.org update

What is the plan for boot.kernel.org? I wonder if they are aware of system designer, an implementation of which is hosted at http://www.instalinux.com/

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Posted Jul 25, 2009 21:39 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Except that I still need to have an optical disk or USB key to run instalinux right? It's like a 30MB download?

This sounds a little different. The next time btrfs fries Linus's laptop, he could just type a line at a BIOS prompt to PXE into a btrfs-friendly rescue image straight off boot.kernel.org. Very cool.

If I'm understanding the article correctly that is...