Hello, As we discovered recently, the daily sparc netboot image exceeds 10MB limit imposed by OpenBoot, so it fails to boot. I've poked at it a bit, and it seems that one of the most straightforward ways to make room is to drop wpasupplicant and all its dependencies (libcrypto, crypto kernel modules) which account for significant amount of space on the initrd. AFAIK, sparc does not have any hardware which does wifi natively, and while it's in theory possible to use some usb-wifi dongle to do the installation, I don't remember any reports of anyone doing it.
The straightforward way to achieve this goal is to make netcfg not depend on wpasupplicant for sparc (same way as s390 currently does). This will drop wpasupplicant (and, subsequently, installation over wireless support) not only from netboot, but also from all other installation media (like businesscard iso). Let me know if you have any objections, otherwise I'll commit necessary fixes in a couple of days. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111023123706.ga5...@wooyd.org