Marco d'Itri wrote: > joeyh@debian.org wrote: > > >> Which one of the images? How big will it be? > >> Is the netinstall initrd full? > >I see no reason to put it on the CD initrd, but it can be added to the > What is the CD initrd used for? Do you mean the hd-media initrd? It's used for booting the CD. > >business card CD, where it will be available to the installer to use to > >download debs. > This would be acceptable but annoying, as the business card image is > about 50 MB big. Still potentially useful for those who end up using that ISO though. > > It could also be put on the net_drivers floppy, for use > >with a 3 floppy full net/ppp install. That floppy currently has only 71k > >free (but already includes ppp and serial port modules), so if that is > >not enough space, we'd need a separate ppp_drivers floppy. > Do not forget that the ppp modules are useless without ppp-udeb, so you > either find the 200 KB needed by it or remove these too. If the udeb is 200k then we'll need to split all that off to a separate ppp_drivers floppy. > BTW, what are the serial port modules supposed to be used for? ppp-udeb > does not support setting up a dialup connection (it lacks chat(8) and a > configuration front end). They were probably included initially in the expectation that we'd have ppp support on there sometime, I don't know. > Anyway, if the plan is to support pppoe with three floppies then I think > this part could be skipped, probably users who cannot boot a pppoe > initrd from the network or from an USB drive would prefer to download > the business card CD image rather than mess with floppies. Some people do not have CD drives. -- see shy jo
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