lör 2003-04-05 klockan 07.15 skrev Anthony Towns: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > > Well, the netinst _CDs_ don't use the net floppy image, > > Don't the netinst CDs just use the CD images? As far as d-i's concerned, > they're as good as the full regular sized CD set, no? Exactly, but they need some extra mechanisms to be user-friendly. For example, on a netinst CD anna should definitely install netcfg, ethdetect, net-retriever and choose-mirror automatically. That should not happen on a regular CD (should still be possible to install them of course, but not happening automatically) > > but a lot of our testers do use the floppy. > > Sure. Again there seem to be three ways of doing things: > > * Boot and install from a CD, or other large media > * Boot via PXElinux (ie, netboot), and install via http/NFS/etc > * Boot from floppies, then use CD/net/whatever > > The first two can have >1.44MB images, if necessary, the latter's likely > to be fairly unusual, so doesn't have to be completely internationalised > if necessary. Indeed. Removing the utf-8 locale from the net 1.44 floppy image will put it below the limit again. However, that means splitting the net image into something that's a floppy image and something that will just produce an initrd for purpose of pxelinux. We'll have to refine our build process a bit, but it should be doable. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren sjogren@debian.org -- marvin@dum.chalmers.se GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello)
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