On Oct 07 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:03:10AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I'd be happy if it were included in non-free, if that's possible. Is > > it? > > Not with the boot sector situation non-clear, but we can try it.
I hate to have to get things from anything that is not testing, which is where my main focus is. Getting miboot in unstable would be a great step forward. > > I'm really quite short of time right now (preparing lots of midterms > > and then marking them up---ugh!) to rewrite anything... > > Yeah, as anyone. but the code just need to be removed, or rewritten > with 0s, i guess you could do it with dd or something :) Humm, just removed? Doesn't it do anything useful? > > Ok, I can be a guinea pig for the current d-i floppies, if you want > > me to. But if they are working, why did you ask me for my own > > .config file? Do you still build the floppies based on 2.4 kernels? > > Nope, only 2.6, but i like to compare the .configs, to fine tune or as > reference if i need to remove other stuff. Where exactly are the things that you've done so far, so that I can test them? I may have some spare time after the 20th of October (well, I sure hope so). > > > Sure, they are initrd images, i had trouble enough to squeeze them > > > into floppies like this, can't add stuff to them, but maybe we can > > > design a way to make them as small as possible. > > > > Right. I think that this may be doable. > > But i was not really able to squeeze more of it out, mybe because i > include all old-world fbdevs and you use only yours ? I'm surprised, because I'd think that having both ext2 and ext3 compiled in the kernel would seem to be much more code than some the ow fbdevs... > > When you wrote that, did you think of using quik to boot from a > > floppy? That's something that just now occurred to me. > > Nope, but d-i is supposed to be able to install quik so you should not > need to worry about miboot floppies ever after, but quik is broken on > some obscure hardware combinations, so a miboot-installer for those > would be handy. Indeed, quik is quite temperamental. I still have not understood completely when it works and what I should do to make it work reliably. :-( > > Did you get it? There's nothing magical about it. I will, BTW, try to > > build a newer kernel, but it seems that the compilation bombs when I > > disable PMU support (this machine, AFAIK, only uses CUDA). > > Yep, same here. Nice to know that. This means that prossibly. > > Perhaps BenH would have any comments on this? I may, of course, > > provide further details if desired. > > not had time to look at it, it is neatly archived for when the moment > comes though. Ok. :-) Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
