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Bug#343674: [arm] Installation report - etch beta1 on netwinder



Jurij Smakov wrote:
> There is, but it will most probably not help. The messages above are 
> produced by the machine's firmware (which is linux-based), and the oops is 
> happening while the *firmware* is downloading the netboot image into the 
> memory region reserved for it, and running out of space. The debian kernel 
> has not even started booting at this point.

Ok.

I don't know what would be best to remove from the netwinder netboot initrd
to save space. Some candidates include:

 - The cdebconf text frontend (not used by default, useful to include
   for serial consoles though)
 - isa-pnp-modules -- does netwinder actually use this for any ethernet
   cards?
 - nic-extra-modules -- if we check the included modules and make sure
   that nic-modules has any nic drivers we would expect a netwinder to
   need
 - usb-modules -- does a netwinder need this for USB keyboard?
 - bogl-bterm-udeb -- can a netwinder have a console at all?
 - console-keymaps-usb, console-keymaps-at -- can a netwinder have a
   keyboard at all?
 - as a last resort, we could reduce the size greatly by removing
   translations

Luckily we already have a separate netboot image just for netwinders,
so removing any of the above from it will be relatively easy.

-- 
see shy jo

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