On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > Is installation from floppies still supported? If so, can they be >> > converted to using initramfs? >> >> Actually, I don't see how this can work today since ext2 is a module... >> Has anyone tested that these work in lenny? > > There are no floppy images in Lenny. We stopped building them because the > kernel would no longer fit on the boot floppy. There was some discussion > on having a separate kernel for D-I floppy installs (it would still fit > with a number of unneeded optionsdisabled), but that was blocked by the > kernel team as they did not want to build a separate flavor for that > purpose.
But the installer does not need a separate kernel. It just needs a smaller one. And the kernel team are already supporting several smaller (older) kernels. So why can't all of the the lenny/squeeze installations be done with the kernel from etch or even sarge? This would seem to be completely within the jurisdiction of the installer team. Am I missing something? Lee Winter NP Engineering Nashua, New Hampshire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
