On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:15:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:49:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:05:21AM -0300, Rogério 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. > > > > After discussion with ben, it seems that it may be possible to bring the > > 2.4 kernel down to floppy size. I don't have pmac hardware, and even > > less oldworld hardware, so i am maybe not the right person for it, but > > could you maybe try to build a .config that is acceptable, and which > > brings the kernel down to floppy size again ? I can then try to generate > > a new kernel-image for it. I will be splitting more kernel-image > > packages nextly anyway (for chrp, prep and pmac, i don't know if there > > are SMP chrp and preps though). > > Why? One of the best things about 2.4 was that we didn't need separate > kernel-image packages for prep chrp and pmac; everything necessary was > OK as a module.
The only problem is that the actual kernel images where for pmac only. I for example cannot boot the resulting files, and need the zImage.chrp. I may miss something though. Friendly, Sven Luther
