Bug 73519

Summary: Why does mkbootdisk include the network driver?
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: hjl
Component: mkbootdiskAssignee: Matt Wilson <msw>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description hjl 2002-09-05 17:43:08 UTC
mkbootdisk-1.4.3-1 includes the network driver.
It doesn't make any senses. The initrd on the
harddrive doesn't do it. Why should mkbootdisk?
It makes my floopy bootdisk so big that it won't
even fit to 1.44MB.

Comment 1 hjl 2002-09-05 18:23:08 UTC
Created attachment 75105 [details]
A patch

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-02-19 06:53:28 UTC
We don't include it anymore as of 1.5.0-1