On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:09:46PM +0100, Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 13 November 2001 09:52, Ethan Benson wrote: > > 2.4 is also especially problematic on i386 since you have to fit it on > > all these archaic 1.22MB floppies and such. > > Hmm, I thought the 2.4 kernel was quite compact, and sometimes smaller, when > compiled than the 2.2, ( I don't know though. ) quite the opposite, its much much larger. > Having had the need of a 2.2.13 kernel for installing Debian on a machine > with HW RAID and reiserfs, I rolled my own boot disks. Although I didnt > install lots of stuff in my kernel, it isn't overly sized. > This is 'df -h' when mounting the rescue disk for 1220 floppy: > ******** > /usr/src/boot-floppies/resc1200.bin > 1.2M 993k 192k 84% /usr/src/boot-floppies/resc > ******** > This kernel is admittedly not very versatile. > I'll attach my config file as well > My drivers.tgz file is quite small, but then again, I have very few modules. > > I assume someone have tried making 1220 floppies with 2.4.x, finding it > difficult, and were not just assuming? yes, see -boot archives. > And will the next generation bootstrap system make it any easier to switch? > If not, what is crucial for the switch to happen? debian-installer is not anywhere near ready for prime-time and won't be used for woody, development is concentrated on boot-floppies otherwise we will never have any kind of working install system. besides the size problem the decision is not up to -boot, i386 woody will ship with 2.2.19 or 2.2.20, that is not going to change. (aph the boot-floppies maintainer has spoken on this already). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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