Bug#276826: marked as done (PowerPC floppy root.img sizes)
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:31:34 -0400
From: Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>
Subject: PowerPC floppy root.img sizes
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> From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> Date: Sat Oct 16, 2004 05:12:16 AM US/Eastern
> To: Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>
> Cc: Duane Cottle <duane@thecottles.net>, debian-
> powerpc@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, Sven
> Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> Subject: Re: floppy root.img sizes
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:17:45PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is the wrong list for this...
>>>
>>> I have been testing daily sarge floppy install images from
>>> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/
>>> for a few weeks on OldWorld Macs.
>>>
>>> That is, until October 8. Since then, root.img seems to have
>>> swollen to
>>> a size bigger than I can dd onto a floppy.
>>>
>>> What's puzzling to me is that the sizes reported by any tool I use to
>>> download the images is less than the ls -l report by around 4.2KB.
>>>
>>> Example: in gFTP today's root.img shows 1468006 on the server and
>>> 1509557 on my hd.
>
> Damn it, the root image has again grown out of proportion. Please
> fill a bug
> report against debian-installer about this. I will try to have a
> look, but
> Joey Hess and maybe Colin Watson would be better placed to fix this,
> especially as i will probably not have access to my devel box
> until i put some
> order in this room. One month of travelling, and my computer room
> now is
> completely crowded. Oh well.
>
>> Hi Duane,
>>
>> I'm forwarding this to Sven Luther, who generates the floppy images in
>> question. I'm also forwarding this to the "debian-boot" list, where
>> there are other folks besides Sven who may be able to help.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
>
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Oops.
Should have send previous message to 276826-done.
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