On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:37:13PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: > So where are we? > What about the miboot floppy images? Did we progress? > > I have several OldWorld waiting to be freed here. > > :-) It is clear that miboot and the official 2.6.12 kernel sources works fine together. And that it is possible to make a reasonable kernel fit on a floppy. I have created various miboot floppy images, but all with special purpose configurations (nfs-root, ide-hd root) and they seem to put the CPU in a very slow mode, at least on the performa 5400 on which I test them. The l2cr cache has been suggested as the problem here, but I haven't had the time to look into that yet. As for daily images, there seems to be successfully built images at: http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/ -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org
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