On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:11:10 +0100 Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:12:00PM +0100, Joyce Markoll wrote: > > > My demand is a wish that the floppy image base be upgraded, > > > and > > > additionnally, that some floppy web page links would point to the > > > exact CD iso image that can fit with the kernel/initrd/drivers > > > version in the floppy images, > You should have contacted debian-boot@ instead of debian-qa@ as the > floppy images are part of the debian-installer. This is probably the > reason why your emails has been unanswered until now. Hello, And thanks for your answer. The problem is there are so many mailing-lists, and there is the need for so much knowledge to know where to post what, I asked for advise on a chan once, for the "where-to-post-this-all" questions, as I found many little annoyances while installing/configuring/starting to use Debian. So I subscribed here as I thought I might try to contribute by posting here and there about thoses annoyances. (Obsolete packages or else). The fact is I couldn't have fancy what you just explained : that is is part of the installer, and that it belongs do debian-boot@ list to take a look to that matter. > As you can read on the current errata page [1], floppy based > installations are not possible with Lenny debian-installer. The root > cause is the size of the kernel which keeps growing, and the > incompatibility [2] between upx-ucl [3] and Linux 2.6.26. Without the > size reduction provided by compressing the kernel, the image really > exceeds the floppy capacity. > > Good news is that support for better compression algorithms (bzip2 and > lzma) have reached newer Linux versions, and we should be able to > support floppy again for Squeeze. > > [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/490149 > [3] http://packages.debian.org/upx-ucl Ok ! :) What for a Debian "wheretopost-this@" mailing list ? :D Cheers, Joyce Markoll > Cheers, > Jérémy Bobbio .''`. > lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism Did apt find the package on the servers ? :-)
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