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. I am building a stripped down version of the linux-image-powerpc-miboot right now. I will test it before sending patches. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from me and has not been altered on the way to you.
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