Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
>>>You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB floppies.
>>>
>>Well, ok no problem, just make a tarball that can be copied to 1760Kb
>>floppies, it is even better, since we have more place for stuff.
>>
>>I don't think we can ever fit a kernel and amiboot in 880kb, could we ?
>>
> 
> My 2.4.4 zImage is only 458036 bytes long. I have lots of modules, but it could
> work. I remember I once did.


Can we use modules for the install on APUS? Our strategy has been to include 
all possible hardware into the kernel.


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