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Bug#179423: installation-reports: debian-installer net image from CVS does not fit on a floppy



Hi,

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:38:04PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Joost van Baal 
> 
> |  # vi /etc/fstab  ( as noted in build/Makefile )
> |  % vi Makefile    ( uncomment USER_MOUNT_HACK )
> |  % fakeroot make floppy_image
> | 
> |  ...
> |  cp dest/net-initrd.gz `pwd`/mnt//initrd.gz
> |  cp: writing `/home/joostvb/cvs/cvs.debian.org/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/mnt//initrd.gz': No space left on device
> |  make: *** [dest/net-1440.img] Error 1
> | 
> | BTW, just dd-ing the borken .img to fd0 does give a bootable floppy.
> | It's not of much use, though.
> | 
> | Hope this is of any use to you, and thanks for working on
> | debian-installer: it looks quite promissing!
> 
> Do you have the necessary -pic libraries installed?  It sounds like
> mklibs isn't reducing as much as it should.

Hm, I guess so:

root@nagy:~# apt-get update && apt-get install libdebian-installer3 \
 libdiscover1 slang1-utf8-pic syslinux dosfstools libdiscover1-pic \
 genext2fs mklibs libdebconf1 libc6-pic sysutils


...

System stats
------------
Installed udebs: di-utils-shell rootskel anna main-menu cdebconf-udeb
udpkg busybox-udeb dash-udeb kernel-image-2.4.19-386-udeb choose-mirror
net-retriever netcfg-static netcfg-dhcp pump-udeb modutils-basic
ethdetect nic-modules-shared-2.4.19-386-udeb
socket-modules-2.4.19-386-udeb isa-pnp-modules-2.4.19-386-udeb
nic-modules-2.4.19-386-udeb 
Total system size: 1.9M (828K libs, 356K kernel modules)
Initrd size: 760k
Kernel size: 660k
Free space: 20k

A nice bootfloppy got created.

Dunno how I could've missed that the first time.  I'd expect it to have
failed.  Anyway, for some reason, the problems seems to be solved now.

Thanks, Bye,

Joost


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