On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:23:52PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > - We'll continue to produce separate cd, mini.iso and hd-media images; > creating netboot images seems less obvious because of the size of > the initrd.
A netboot mini.iso would be useful, but for powerpc there's probably not a lot of point in other netboot images; most of the machines that might be able to use this use yaboot, and we're already running up against its TFTP limit with non-GUI images. > Including the g-i images on the netinst will mean that it will grow bigger > than its current "maximum" size of 110 MB. The 110 MB limit is set mostly > to allow installations from a 128 MB USB-stick (hd-media image + netinst > iso together must be smaller than the capacity of the USB stick). > As we feel it is important to have the graphical installer available on > all CD types, we propose to relax the current size limit. This will mean > that the default image for USB installations will become 256 MB instead > of 128 MB. > We'd prefer not let the netinst grow unnecessarily, but relaxing the size > limit means that we could also for example include both initramfs-tools > and yaird (current netinst images only have one, not both). I agree with Sven that size isn't so much of a concern with powerpc due to the prevalence of slot-loading drives. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
