On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:24:03AM -0200, Rog�rio Brito wrote: > On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > The d-i team would appreciate your help. We seriously need testers on > > oldworld, as none of us has access to such hardware. AFAIK d-i is > > completly untested on oldworld. The first step would probably be to > > build a kernel 2.4 (needed for devfs) which fits on a floppy, as we were > > told that this is the only way to boot oldworlds without using > > proprietary software. > > Yes, booting on oldworlds via a CD seems to be possible only with > proprietary drivers. OTOH, I could (when I had Debian installed on that > oldwordl) boot it with miboot on a floppy without problems. > > What I did was to compile my own kernel, gzip the vmlinux file in the
Could it be possible to have a copy of your .config file, so as to know which options are needed to make the kernel fit on a floppy ? If it is not possible to have the powerpc configuration made to fit, i will probably be building an old-world kernel configuration too. Friendly, Sven Luther
