On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 14:28 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > What I've done for now is drop the -486 kernel flavour from the m-a > netinst. From a test build I've just done, everything fits on a single > CD again, even with firmware included. If people want to install from > a netinst onto a pre-686 machine then they'll need to use the separate > i386 netinst instead of the multi-arch version. > > How does that sound?
In light of Frans' concern perhaps consider dropping 686 instead of 486? I think that will result in 686-bigmem being installed on systems which would have previously got 686 (I can confirm if necessary). This isn't necessarily a bad thing -- it enables NX support for one thing which is generally desirable. FWIW RHEL 6 (the beta at least) ships with only a PAE (aka 686-bigmem) kernel, I guess things are heading that way generally. Ian. -- Ian Campbell "I have five dollars for each of you." -- Bernhard Goetz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1278689669.28432.677.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com