On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:55:51AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hi, ... > > I am requesting, on behalf of the powerpc oldworld floppies users, some help > to solve the problem of too big root.img. > > The file is 1489688 bytes, while the floppy size is 1474560, so it is 15128 > bytes to huge. I had a quick look at the floppy pkg-lists, but i couldn't see > anything obvious to move around to another floppy, maybe the the socket > modules could move to the net-drivers floppy or something, but that is about > it, and i think socket-modules is empty right now anyway. > > So, it would be very nice if someone with knowledge of the floppies would take > a look and see where we can gain those 15128 bytes, maybe removing one of the > console maps (we have usb and at, but oldworld only have adb keymaps, not sure > what it maps to though), and also add the bit of code Frans mentioned the x86 > floppies already have for failing if the image size is bigger than a floppy. I > searched for it in config/i386, but failed to find anything that did something > like this. Hi Sven, here is a patch against installation-locale, it saves about 35kB in the udeb by dropping definitions for transliteration. Since we try hard to include all glyphs, these definitions are surely useless. Denis
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