> John Allen wrote: > > On Friday 17 October 2003 12:17, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > [snipped] > > > > > >>Get a bigger floppy disk, or use ext2 filesystems only, or provide a > >>patch to make smaller kernels. > >> > > > > > > Yes; but who is responsible for this. 9.2 has been released with the > inability > > to create a boot floppy on a standard 1440 sized floppy. > > > > > >>>This is a very basic and essential requirement which should not be in > >>>any way hidden. > >> > >>Haven't made a boot floppy (besides to install from) myself in over 2 > >>years. > >> > > > > > > Yes; usually use the CD myself. But none the less this is really not > > acceptable. 9.2 has too many stupid problems, from no screensavers in > KDE, > > broken urpmi, and now this. The list is just growing day by day. > > FWIW, this exact same problem also existed in 9.1, so it is not a 9.2 > regression.
well not exactly in 9.1 the problem was only with xfs (module is ~300k) in cooker/9.2 the kernel is compiled with all debuging symbols (not the case with 9.1), and the kernel is with ~300k bigger just do test recompile of the kernel with this feature enabled/disabled and do a "ls -l arch/i386/boot/bzImage" between the recompiles the last time i checked it was : 9xx kb against 12xxkb so... -- NEU F�R ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - f�r Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gru�, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More! +++
