Hi, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:43, Rick Thomas wrote: > Not to put words into his mouth, but I think that is what Holger is > saying. For the purpose the Sarge floppyset serves, it's enough to > have just a 2.4 kernel for the installer.
Yes.
> Holger seems to reply "Why bother?"
I rather like to concentrate on etch/lenny now.
> My thought (admittedly a bit of a stretch) is that there *may* be
> hardware out there (SATA disks?) that a user can plug into an
> OldWorld PowerMac PCI slot that is not supported by the 2.4 kernel,
> but is supported by the 2.6 kernel, and why should we artificially
> limit our user base to exclude such users?
Because such users only *might* exist and even they can easily work around
this themselves?
regards,
Holger
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