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

2000-11-02 Thread Randolph Chung
> I never thought we'd be able to fit *all* the nic drivers in the kernel. > The nic drivers supported by the potato compact floppies seems like a good > start. (Can you check how bug that set is?) compact has a lot of net drivers built as modules actually. the built in ones are: 3c905 (Vortex

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

2000-11-02 Thread Glenn McGrath
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > > 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 driver

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

2000-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > The base kernel takes 385K and all the net drivers take 575K. It essentialy > means it is a two floppy install (unless there is someway a user could choose > only the drivers he/she needs). It is a catch-22 here.. We need to know the > NIC card to choose the dr

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

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:02:50AM -0500, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > Just some prior info: > > The base kernel takes 385K and all the net drivers take 575K. It essentialy > means it is a two floppy install (unless there is someway a user could choose > only the drivers he/she needs). It