Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Since I don't know of anybody else doing such a thing, I've begun work > on the port of debian-installer to the Alpha platform. I've got most > things built, but at the moment I'm struggling to get the kernel+initrd > pruned down to a small enough size to fit on a floppy. What is expected > to be available in the initrd during the install process (i.e. what can > I safely leave out of the initrd)? You need enough on the initrd to bootstrap the installer to the point where it can load the rest of itself from modules or the network. I don't know how far over alpha is, but fitting on a PC floppy might be too much to ask of architectures with 64 bit code. You can always go the two floppy route if you need to.. -- see shy jo
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