Erik Dykema wrote: > OK, I think i get it, thanks! I was attempting to install the > 'testing' distribution, that must be why it didn't work. > So the 'fix' for this is to get the 2.4.24 kernel into testing. > OR, to build a 'testing' version of d-i.
Yes, I may see about getting the 2.4.24 kernel into testing eventually. However, if you want to test unstable d-i -- and there's no reason to use the unstable netboot images if you don't -- then you should still pick unstable. > As a side note, I have a question regarding why the netboot images > need not contain all the necessary drivers? At their current size (2.1 > megs) they are too small to fit onto a floppy disk, so they are mostly > used by (perhaps here is where I am wrong?) those doing PXE boots (like > me)? > On the sizes that we are working with ( 1 - 10 megabytes ) I don't > think it would necessarily hurt to include more drivers / modules in the > netboot image. I think there are some netboot image size limits, though I really don't know. -- see shy jo
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