This time Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> 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. Why not make CD1 installer for big boxes and CD2 installer for small boxes? that way you get the best of both worlds :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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