[syslinux] isolinux 2.01 bug with Compaq and Promise BIOS

[H. Peter Anvin]

Patrick J. Volkerding wrote:
> 
> It's not quite as big an issue now that there's isolinux, but for a long
> time the Slackware installer was a single 1.44MB floppy.  So, you start to
> worry about running out of space.  Notice how much size gets tacked on
> adding mtools:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     bin         16280 Feb  3  2002 /usr/bin/syslinux
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     bin        139740 Apr 30  2002 /usr/bin/mtools
> 
> Of course, I'm sure you're aware of this.  I'd rather not have to add
> mtools to our installer image (which is still under 2.88MB compressed),
> but if I have to it's not that big a deal.  There's also the option of
> installing a newer version of syslinux to the hard drive but keeping the
> self-contained one in the installer.  I tend to approach syslinux upgrades
> cautiously when things seem to be working, though...  I suppose that's
> another reason.  :-)
> 

You don't need /usr/bin/syslinux on the installer disk, though.

	-hpa