On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:12:17PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > I'm not moving to 2.4 for i386 boot-floppies, the kernels are too big, > and it's too late to do that anyhow.
I'll take that as a positive sign that release is soon! > Mark van Walraven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2.4.10-ac11 patched to ext3-2.4-0.9.12 works very well for me. > > I'm suprised you were able to fit it? did you use the 2.88k images? total 1404 -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1179 Oct 25 00:05 config.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1144 Oct 25 00:05 debian.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 804 Oct 25 00:05 f1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 759 Oct 25 00:05 f10.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 752 Oct 25 00:05 f2.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1071 Oct 25 00:05 f3.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1209 Oct 25 00:05 f4.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1196 Oct 25 00:05 f5.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1373 Oct 25 00:05 f6.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 833 Oct 25 00:05 f7.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1348 Oct 25 00:05 f8.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1269 Oct 25 00:05 f9.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 503934 Oct 25 14:22 initrd.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1521 Oct 25 00:05 install.sh -r--r--r-- 1 markv users 6900 Oct 25 00:05 ldlinux.sys -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 796668 Oct 25 00:05 linux -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 634 Oct 25 00:05 rdev.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 896 Oct 25 00:05 readme.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 107869 Oct 25 00:05 sys_map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 1235 Oct 25 14:10 syslinux.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 markv users 7 Oct 25 00:05 type.txt I guess the answer is what I leave out of the kernel, compared to, say, the compact flavour. I've attached the config. There are a few oddities: floppy and NIC drivers are modular, IDE is built-in (a mistake, for my purposes) and in-kernel NFSD is built-in (another mistake). The initrd on the rescue disk contains modules and a shell. I used to need that to set up LVM, but now all it does is load a few modules, load a ramdisk from the root floppy and start the installer. It could be obviated by building the floppy and NIC drivers into the kernel. > It might be nice to at least document how this could be built, for > i386 documentation anyhow. The instructions in the installation manual (section 10.3) and also the README in the boot-floppies source are still apt. If you mean the kernel config, what do you really want to have built-in? I don't mind trying a few configs out for size. Regards, Mark.
CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ISA=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_M686=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5 CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_PGE=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_ISAPNP=m CONFIG_PNPBIOS=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_MD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y CONFIG_MD_RAID5=y CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=y CONFIG_PACKET=m CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m CONFIG_NETFILTER=y CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=m CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=m CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=m CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y CONFIG_SCSI=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES=y CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=253 CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000 CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID=m CONFIG_SCSI_EATA=m CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_TAGGED_QUEUE=y CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_LINKED_COMMANDS=y CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_MAX_TAGS=16 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=m CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=4 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20 CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_TUN=m CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y CONFIG_VORTEX=m CONFIG_NET_PCI=y CONFIG_EEPRO100=m CONFIG_8139TOO=m CONFIG_TLAN=m CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=m CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 CONFIG_INTEL_RNG=m CONFIG_NVRAM=m CONFIG_RTC=m CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_SIS=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y CONFIG_AGP_I810=y CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y CONFIG_QUOTA=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y CONFIG_JBD=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=m CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m CONFIG_TMPFS=y CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m CONFIG_JOLIET=y CONFIG_ZISOFS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_CODA_FS=m CONFIG_INTERMEZZO_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFSD=y CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y CONFIG_SUNRPC=y CONFIG_LOCKD=y CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y CONFIG_ZISOFS_FS=m CONFIG_ZLIB_FS_INFLATE=m CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1" CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y