Re: Building install floppies

[Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:14:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Sorry if this is just noise, but I tried to build install disks and got the
> below after "make build". The result in "make floppy_image" is what can be
> predicted from the output.
> I have read all the docs in doc/ and the build/README, but will confess that
> I've more or less have just added the builddeps from unstable and try to use
> fakeroot for make build and su(do) only for make floppy_image.
> Is this just the current state of affairs or is there something I'm doing wrong?
> (If it's too complicated to explain and you don't have time ATM, that's OK, too,
> but I'd love learn about d-i (and in my book this means building it, too.))
> 
> Cheers+Thanks
> 
> Thomas
> 
> System stats
> ------------
> Installed udebs: di-utils-shell rootskel anna main-menu cdebconf-udeb udpkg
> busybox-udeb dash-udeb kernel-image-2.4.19-386-udeb choose-mirror net-retriever
> netcfg-static netcfg-dhcp pump-udeb modutils-basic ethdetect
> nic-modules-shared-2.4.19-386-udeb socket-modules-2.4.19-386-udeb
> isa-pnp-modules-2.4.19-386-udeb nic-modules-2.4.19-386-udeb
> Total system size: 2.5M (1.4M libs, 356K kernel modules)
> Initrd size: 970k
> Kernel size: 656k
> Free space: -186k

It works on my system.  It uses the same packages:

 Total system size: 2.1M (832K libs, 396K kernel modules)
 Initrd size: 760k
 Kernel size: 660k
 Free space: 20k

Have you installed the PIC libraries?

Matt
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