On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 08:55:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > 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.
I disagree. yaboot is a mess to setup for netbooting, and IBM chrp boxes have a bug which excludes yaboot netbooting (only one file can be loaded through TFTP). On top of that, the current yaboot (and we can't probably change it without another 6+ month flamewar with Ethan Benson), limits the yaboot netboot buffer to 6MB, which is problematic for g-i on powerpc. Furthermore, the netboot images can be easily booted from the OF command line, without any additional setup like DHCP/BOOTP, which is a benefit. Finally, altough the older g-i failed on my PReP boxes (probably due to big size, or missing sisfb support in the kernel), there may be still a chance that the current g-i images may work on PReP, and yaboot doesn't work there. For all those reasons, i would build the netboot g-i images, it costs not much to build them, and since they are not going to be included on the isos ... > > 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. :) Not growing the isos too much is still good on the download size though. I am not sure if g-i is booting on powerpc right now though, last we tried in january, it crashed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
