-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Whitehead wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:20:23AM -0800 : > > After finally getting 9.0 installed (5 hours later), I noted that there > is much less scsi drivers built for the BOOT kernel then other kernels. > Why is this? Can't stage2 just have every kernel module built for > completeness? What the hell is the point of including the mpt drivers in > all the other kernels except the install kernel?
Space is at a premium. Mandrake already takes a little bit of heat because we require 64 Megs to do an install (can do it in 32, but then it can't inflate the compressed ramdisk image and hence cannot unmount the CD so only CD1 can get installed). Care to up the minimum system requirements to 96 Megs? We rule out nearly everything old in the process, which is one of the things that attracts people to Linux in the first place. Maybe not Mandrake so much, as we tend to be flashier (ie bigger footprint). It's a quandry. Support the old at the expense of the new? Or support the new and alienate a community of loyalists? I wish there was an easy answer. > Is this fixed in mdk9.1? That I do not know authoritatively. I did find this in Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/mdkinst/lib/modules.description: mptscsih Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver so it looks like possibly yes. Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ Favourite shell: bash, though I also like 'init=/usr/bin/emacs' --Andrew Tridgell Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ehmulp7v05cW2woRAs2cAJwPblwbU1i/yatkN6za+21uusR60ACfSKtH fZoOMSypvDR9cQ3NSKCclcI= =Z0fo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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