On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:14:30PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > [snip] > > > > Yeah, but what about 2.6 for powerpc and x86 (and maybe some other who > > > > is ready) and 2.4 for the rest of it (and 2.2 for some m68k subarches). > > > > > > It would kill floppy boot images for i386 (2.6 is too big for it). > > > > Err, what is the problem in having 2.4 floppy debian-installer, and then > > install the 2.6 kernel on the installed system. > > That's not a problem, apart from diverging device support for e.g. SATA. > But d-i uses the normal debian kernel. If you eliminate 2.4 i386, then > there's no such kernel left for d-i.
I am not proposing anything so drastic, just that 2.6 be made the defaultm with 2.4 as fallback for those who need it. > > We also have this > > problem on powerpc, and another solution may be a separate kernel > > flavour for 2.6 debian-installer floppies. Altough we are only 300-400KB > > away of fiting on a floppy with miboot. > > IOW, it doesn't work there as well. Everything not needed for boot > should already be in modules anyway. Ah, this is indeed worse than on powerpc, where there is ample possibilities to remove stuff still, at least for oldworld who don't need a whole bunch of stuff which is actually builtin. Friendly, Sven Luther
