Re: Install on OldWorld
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:41:45AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> 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/
Yep, the problem, and this needs someone with more time than i have, would
need to lock into it, is that ....
Hey, neat, someone fixed the images builds, and they are no more of monstrous
size, need to test them.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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