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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Re: Kernel selection on i386 for Xen compatibility



On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I'd really like it if Debian could supply a PAE enable installer as
> standard but if not I'll find another way (presumably supplying one
> myself).
>
> I experimented with a netboot image with both -486 and -686-bigmem and
> it added 1.4M to a 5M initrd.gz image, which I can see could be
> unacceptable. A separate netboot-bigmem could be an alternative (note: I
> think for PV install netboot is the most obvious choice for the
> installer, cdrom a distant second and floppy etc nowhere insight)

I guess only providing a netboot image (+ mini.iso) could be an option.
It should not be too hard to implement that in the build system.

Anybody else have any opinions on that?

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