Re: hardware detection using libpci

2000-11-09 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Is RH database GPL'd? If so, can we use the database to create the header files for libdetect ?? Regards, Vaidhy "Who does not like duplicating cuz he is lazy" On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:04:22PM -0600, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > was called). I never compiled the actual program, but there is

One or two floppies (was: first weekly debian-installer status report)

2000-11-02 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:30:33PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > > > - kernel module udebs [UNCLAIMED] > > > Not started. We will need various sets of kernel modules; > > > one such set is NIC drivers.

Re: first weekly debian-installer status report

2000-11-01 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
> - kernel module udebs [UNCLAIMED] > Not started. We will need various sets of kernel modules; > one such set is NIC drivers. Each set goes in a udeb; there > probably has to be a system to build the whole kernel and > udebs. I already

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-17 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
-Os defaults to -O2 when I compile for i386 with math-emulation on.. Regards, Vaidhy > What about compiling the kernel with -Os instead of the default -O2, i > did some compiles and on a small kernel with nothing it made it 3KB > smaller, on my regular kernel which is 946KB it reduced it to 930

gzip or bzip2 on boot floppies??

2000-10-16 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi , I wonder if we would be having bzip2 or gzip on the boot floppies.. All the network modules compiled takes about 1.3M, but compresssed with bzip2 , needs only 435K.. The size of bzip2 + libbz2.so is about 85K.. We can probably do the same with the initrd image.. That can save us quite some s

Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-15 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi All, I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the issues I have is that to read the network drivers,