On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:06:35PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > [snip] > > > AFAIK, there's one or two arches that haven't even got to 2.4 yet. I'm > > > pushing for all 2.2 kernel packages to get the boot from the archive, but > > > I > > > think m68k has issues with 2.4. I think we're a long way away from > > > universal > > > 2.6. > > > > Yeah, but what about 2.6 for powerpc and x86 (and maybe some other who > > is ready) and 2.4 for the rest of it (and 2.2 for some m68k subarches). > > It would kill floppy boot images for i386 (2.6 is too big for it).
Err, what is the problem in having 2.4 floppy debian-installer, and then install the 2.6 kernel on the installed system. We also have this problem on powerpc, and another solution may be a separate kernel flavour for 2.6 debian-installer floppies. Altough we are only 300-400KB away of fiting on a floppy with miboot. Friendly, Sven Luther
