Re: d-i atari floppies

2007-02-21 Thread Stephen R Marenka
It seems to have fixed itself. :) Peace, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: d-i atari floppies

2007-02-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> could it be loaded into 2 stages over 2 floppies ? Maybe - at least from user space. There needs to be enough stuff on the ramdisk to mount a floppy and extract a tarball. Not sure if that would work (it's all inside busybox still, right?). > or could it be saved in a 1.7 MB special format ? N

Re: d-i atari floppies

2007-02-20 Thread Aurelien Cornuet
could it be loaded into 2 stages over 2 floppies ? or could it be saved in a 1.7 MB special format ? On 2/20/07, Stephen R Marenka < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > I suspect the initrd got too big to fit on a single floppy? > > >

Re: d-i atari floppies

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > I suspect the initrd got too big to fit on a single floppy? > > > > Yep. > > That won't be easy to fix ... or will it? Depends on what got added that shoved us over. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not do

Re: d-i atari floppies

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I suspect the initrd got too big to fit on a single floppy? > > Yep. That won't be easy to fix ... or will it? At least Atari users can usually rely on a working floppy driver in Linux - so more stuff could be pulled in from floppies after a base set of stuff has been loaded. Otherwise we'd n

Re: d-i atari floppies

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:50:21AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Does anyone out there think booting atari from floppy is worth > > supporting for d-i? > > > > If so, I need to see what happened to the initrd. If not, I'll disable > > them. > > For some people (those with no TOS driver on the

Re: d-i atari floppies

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Does anyone out there think booting atari from floppy is worth > supporting for d-i? > > If so, I need to see what happened to the initrd. If not, I'll disable > them. For some people (those with no TOS driver on the harddisk) it may even be the only way to boot. I suspect the initrd got too bi

d-i atari floppies

2007-02-19 Thread Stephen R Marenka
Does anyone out there think booting atari from floppy is worth supporting for d-i? If so, I need to see what happened to the initrd. If not, I'll disable them. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Descriptio