Op 07-10-2006 om 12:33 schreef rob rob: > Hi, > well to be honest that was a typo, I actually have no idea about > bootloaders and meant to say, number 3, that I would like to help whoever > is working on the boot floppies to fix the problem. I never was good at > multiple choice. > Anyways, I managed to mount the floppies after having considerable > difficulties finding out that they are cramfs. I saw that there are > firewire modules in there. Is that really necessary. I mean as far as I can > remember no old world macs had firewire built in. You could of course > install a pci card but is anyone out there really using that to get in the > net? My suggestion is to get rid of firewire support for netinstall.
Seems a reasonable size reduction to me ... > However, during my investigations I also found following: > http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-09-16/build_powerpc_floppy_net-drivers.log > Thats the last build of the net-install.img and it ends with an error. So > maybe the problem isn't only with the size. So my extremely intelligent > question is, well actually I don't have one, but maybe someone can say why > the image isn't being built properly. http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-10-13/build_powerpc_floppy_net-drivers.log says indeed only: | BUILDING IMAGE FOR build_powerpc_floppy_net-drivers | | make[2]: `dest/powerpc/floppy/net-drivers.img' is up to date. I would expect more output from a good build. Would adding a `make clean` help? Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
