Sven Luther wrote: [snip] > > > 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.
That's not a problem, apart from diverging device support for e.g. SATA. But d-i uses the normal debian kernel. If you eliminate 2.4 i386, then there's no such kernel left for d-i. > 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. IOW, it doesn't work there as well. Everything not needed for boot should already be in modules anyway. Thiemo
