On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:09:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:36:18AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The vmlinux is uncompressed as yaboot cannot handle compressed kernels
> or something such. If the coff kernel is 1.2M, it is ok for a floppy no,
> and the yaboot using pmacs have no floppy driver anyway, so we shouldn't
> care less. I may be wrong about this though, as i am not really intimely
> familiar with pmac hardware.
Yes, you are right, yaboot using ('NewWorld') macs do not generally
have floppies; the only floppy they might have is a USB which is
unsupported for booting anyway. But I don't think .coff is a
compressed format, it is an executable.
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