On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:50 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I'd really like it if Debian could supply a PAE enable installer as > > standard but if not I'll find another way (presumably supplying one > > myself). > > > > I experimented with a netboot image with both -486 and -686-bigmem and > > it added 1.4M to a 5M initrd.gz image, which I can see could be > > unacceptable. A separate netboot-bigmem could be an alternative (note: I > > think for PV install netboot is the most obvious choice for the > > installer, cdrom a distant second and floppy etc nowhere insight) > > I guess only providing a netboot image (+ mini.iso) could be an option. > It should not be too hard to implement that in the build system. I'll continue working along these lines rather than a multi-mode netboot image then, it does appear to be the simpler of the two options from the build POV. I assume that d-i won't be switching to a 2.6.25 kernel until after the next beta, is that right? Shall I file a wishlist bug now for the creation of the -bigmem kernel udebs when the switch happens or shall I wait until it is being planned? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Remember: Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life. -- Dave Butler
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