Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Here's my unofficial boot-floppies TODO:
>
> * build for all supported arches
>
> * eliminate all dselect acquisition methods aside from apt and
> possibly mountable (for NFS, which apt doesn't handle -- socks
> also not handled by apt but I don't know if we care)
>
> * GUI for apt's sources.list configuration
>
> * GUI for tasks/profiles (see above)
>
> * better lilo configuration (borrow from slackware perhaps?)
>
> * close bugs!
>
> * nifty stuff like TFTP and and serial console installation should be
> supported on all possible architectures
> (TFTP images may require some software in Debian which is not currently
> available)
Do we still want to support very old hardware, especially low memory system
(eg. some old sparc, and maybe old 386, 486 as well) ?
In this case, we need to add a "swap on NFS" patch to the kernel.
I found one patch for 2.0.35 (sparc) kernel. And for 2.2, NBD could be used
along with a patch to the networking subsystem
(http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/nbd/nbd.html).
I will try to build bootdisks for sparc based on them.
> * update documentation (too early to do this)
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