Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-17 Thread Duncan Gibb
On 17-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote: AB> How much fits onto one 880K formatted disk, i cant recall, AB> its been so longis it 856k? I think it depends which filesystem you use, and whether you have many small files verses few big ones. For a disk mostly filled with one large file (like a kernel

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-16 Thread Duncan Gibb
On 16-May-01, Giorgio Terzi wrote: >> Well, we could split the kernel in 2 and join it in ram: before >> launching it. Or we could try for a less than 880Ko modular kernel, but >> i have not big hopes on this one. Michel Daenzer is the apus kernel >> package maintainer for debian. GT> As rightly

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Duncan Gibb
On 15-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote: AB> certainly boot-programs (such as the APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) AB> need MUI libraries, but the plain boothack/bootstrap for APUS just AB> needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM Evening, Dr Buxley. That MUI-GUI is aeons out of date now, and really wants r