On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:44:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:07:21AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it > > > is 1675729 in size, thus cannot fit on a 1.44 floppy. Is there > > > anything that can be removed which would allow it to fit on > > > a floppy for oldworld booting? > > > > Actually, we need 80k for the MacOS booting code on the floppy, > > so the zImage needs to get down to 1360k at most. > > Ok. > > What would be the size of the debian-installer root image ?
You're right, the root.bin in the netinst.iso I downloaded from gluck a few days ago is already 2151031, too big for a floppy. Bigger floppies than 1.44 is not an option, the oldworld hardware can't read anything except 800k and 1.44M. I guess, we'll have to make some special exceptions for oldworld in the root.bin build. I'll take a look to see if there are any i386-only things we could avoid. This is not a problem for newworld, no floppy drives anyway. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
