Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:26:52PM +0200, Michel D=E4nzer wrote:
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> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
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> > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
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> >>On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
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> >>>On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> >>>You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB fl=
oppies.
> >>>
> >>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=
 ?
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> > My 2.4.4 zImage is only 458036 bytes long. I have lots of modules, bu=
t it could
> > work. I remember I once did.
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> Can we use modules for the install on APUS? Our strategy has been to in=
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> all possible hardware into the kernel.

Why not, the only problem is that you need the things from which you boot
included in the kernel. That would mean most ide/scsi driver stuff, as we=
ll as
ppp and eth networking and filesystems. Apart from that, most stuff is
probably not needed.

Also, there is no reason the kernel of the boot floppies will be the fina=
l
installed one. I heard speach about 2.4.x being big (probably on i386) th=
at is
too big to fit into a floppy, so they planed to have 2.2.latest on the bo=
ot
floppies, and provide the user a choice of other kernels during the real
install. Now, i don't know if this would be 'hand' installed kernels, or =
done
automaticcaly.

What is the size of the 2.4.x kernel compared to the 2.2.10 one ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther