On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 04:11:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >On Friday 09 July 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> What I've done for now is drop the -486 kernel flavour from the m-a >> netinst. From a test build I've just done, everything fits on a single >> CD again, even with firmware included. If people want to install from >> a netinst onto a pre-686 machine then they'll need to use the separate >> i386 netinst instead of the multi-arch version. >> >> How does that sound? > >IMO it's a very bad idea to support a flavor in the installer itself and >then fail to install a working kernel for it for the target system and >thus create an unbootable system.
True. Any better suggestions? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
