On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:05:21AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Aug 25 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > Sarge will ship with debian-installer, which i doubt will fit on a > > floppy disk on powerpc. Not sure though. > > Hummm, that's not good news. At least for me (I haven't been able to > keep up the messages). And the 2.2 kernels don't enable my oldworld to > see the second PCI bus, which is quite a limitation compared to the 2.4 > kernels.
The standard 2.4 vmlinux for pmac is 3.3M, while the same .coff kernel is only 1.2M, and the i386 equivalent is maybe 700M. I wonder what the difference really is. One thing I have done, is install using 2.2 either on floppy or BootX, and then upgrade to to 2.4 after the basic installation is complete, before installing other packages. But I haven't heard of anyone being able to use quik with 2.4 kernels, again it may be a quik limitation on image size, the limitation seems to crop up around 2.3 MB. BootX will boot a 2.4 image on oldworlds. Perhaps we could collaborate with benh to update quik? Or better, to incorporate code in yaboot so it works on oldworlds? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
