On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:40:36PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:05:58PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>Package: installation-reports > >> > >>In addition to the already noted problems with 2.4 PowerPC boot > >>floppies, I have two requests for modules to be included on the > >>root or root-2: > > > >Ok, actually following up on this from Oldenbourg with an oldworld > >box on > >hand. > > Glad you finally got an oldworld powermac box to test things on! (<-8)
:) It doesn't seem to do netloading correctly though. > I hope Oldenbourg is fun. It's a bit far for me to travel. Yeah, on both accounts. > >>1) The "change installation priority" menu item should be available > >>*very* early in the install process. Best would be immediately > >>after loading the root-2. Currently, it is not available up thru > >>partitioning, at least. > > > >Hehe. Well, this is a general thingy. The idea is to change this > >in the kernel > >command line with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium or low. Maybe i should > >create an > >'expert' boot/boot-ofonly floppy set ? > > Hmmm... In general, I'd much prefer to solve this problem without a > multiplication of floppies -- one for each possible boot-time > option! It takes several minutes to download and burn a floppy. > Multiply that by all the options I need to test, and you're talking > about a serious investment of time. Can't we come up with some > more general method of setting boot-time options? > > In this particular case, could someone please explain to me the > logic behind putting the first availability of "change installation > priority" so late in the game? Because you will only see it if something else fails in the high priority thingy. I have modified the daily builds to boot into priority=medium by default now, so this should solve this. > >>2) The "hfs" and "hfsplus" (MacOS filesystem formats) filesystem > >>modules should be available early on. This would make it much > >>easier to save log files to a floppy or a zip disk. Also, they are > >>*required* for support of booting with BootX, so that the kernel > >>and initrd can be copied from /target/boot/ to the appropriate > >>place on the MacOS partition prior to the reboot. > > > >Yeah, but you have to balance the usefullness of that together > >with the size > >limit of the floppies. > > I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why > we added the "root-2" floppy? Would adding hfs and/or hfsplus kick > us over the edge into "root-3" land? We could indeed add it to root-2, but i would prefer to get the floppy loading work correctly before i do this rather cosmetic thing working. And hfs/hfsplus without ide/scsi driver is not really all that usefull, isn't it. Friendly, Sven Luther
