On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 21:15, Chris Tillman wrote: > 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.
Chris: please look at the bootfloppy stuff Joey did at d-i debcamp first. It works like 1 floppy with kernel and a minimal initrd to detect and mount the floppy drive (possibly on another floppy?) and then loads the real installer root from another floppy. gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
