On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 18:48, Martin Sjögren wrote: > fre 2003-03-14 klockan 19.36 skrev Debian Boot CVS Master: > > Repository: debian-installer/build/pkg-lists/net > > who: mckinstry > > time: Fri Mar 14 11:36:48 MST 2003 > > Log Message: > > We need floppy-retriever in order to fetch other drivers; > > eg ppp, plip, nic-extra-modules, etc. which won't fit on the > > boot floppy. > > floppy-retriever is useless without floppy-modules, which currently > doesn't fit on any of the 1.44M floppies. Nice, huh? :( > > Oh, fun. It appears that of the 125 K (uncompressed) in floppy-modules on i386 at least, 55 K is vfat and fat modules. How about dropping those if necessary? (eg, do ext2 support only) If we don't do something, theres no way we'll get a working one floppy-mostly boot solution. > /M -- Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine
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