On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:57:38AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hello all ;) > > > > Would it be possible to restrict use of "-powerpc-small" kernel to just > > > the floppy with miboot? > > Yeah, i am thinking of doing this, would be more reasonable for now. > > me also thinks this is a good idea. > > > The > > main idea was that it is better to use the same kernel for di as for the > > final install, but this brings more problem than helps, at least for > > now. > > yep. and didn't you say, the -small flavor only exists because of floppy > images ?
The idea was to use the same kernel, so things didn't suddenly stop working, but yes, i will revert this. > > Yeah. That said important drivers like reiserfs or xfs are built modular > > right now, so ... > > yes, but ain't those drivers more important for data partitions not boot > partitions ? Which doesn't stop users from mounting root as them, and then complaining it doesn't work. > another mail, same topic: > > >> Is there support for setting open firmware values in debian-installer at > the > >> moment ? > >Not yet, but you are welcome to provide patches. > > We'll see, I will try to setup a d-i build this weekend or next week (should I > start with i386 or is it equally easy on powerpc?), but I've also got some > offline stuff todo... It is triviela. Checkout the subversion tree, go to installer/build, read the README, and launch the build, after having installed the build dependencies. That said, the open-firmware-setter would be something akin to the yaboot-installer, so it would not really be a di build you need, but create a new .udeb. To do this, look at nobootloader (minimal stuff) and at yaboot/grub/lilo/whatever installer. But for the packaging we (i) can help you. What is really needed on your part is to write the tool/script/whatever, which will do the correct of values writing from some to be defined set of data. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
