Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:07:03PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> Sven Luther wrote:
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> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> > > On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
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> > > >I have a
> > > >suspsicion that the pmac floppies being modular maybe one of the
> > > >causes of
> > > >this, not sure though, possibly another modular important piece of
> > > >the kernel.
> > >
> > > Is the "swim" floppy driver compiled into the kernel?  (not
> > > modular).  If not, the kernel may be unable to read the floppy
> > > drive once it's been loaded by the firmware/bootblock code...
> > 
> > It is not modular in 2.6.7, but it is modular in the new 2.6.8 ones. I will
> > revert that though for the -2 upload.
> > 
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> Will this be in the floppy images that will be at
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>   http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/
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> tonight?  (After 11 PM US Eastern time [GMT-4:00])
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> If so, I can give it a try.

Nope. I have not yet uploaded the 2.6.8 .udebs.

Friendly,

Sven Luther