On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later
upgrade to
2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8
kernels,
so it is best to have the same kernel for installation media and
reboot
kernels.
As I don't know of any hardware that a.) needs to boot from floppy
and b.)
doesnt work with 2.4 but only with 2.6 I still don't see a good
reason to do
the work and do a rebuild of the _sarge_ miboot-floppies.
Since almost 10 years (1997 I think) apple switched to newworld,
which all can
boot from cdrom or have proper OF implementations to boot from
network - so I
also doubt there is a hardware which needs this and I don't know :)
There are plenty of OldWorld Macs out there (I own 6 of them) that
would benefit from a kernel 2.6 bootable Sarge floppy-set.
It's a one-time effort, not a continuing commitment.
The change is trivial, please try it :
At the moment I only have/had to run "debuild", everything else,
takes some of
my time which I rather invest in improving etch and lenny.
It's a one-time effort, not a continuing commitment. And many people
will benefit.
Please!
Sorry for not using your patch, but you can always rebuild the
miboot floppies
yourself ;-)
Sincerely,
Rick
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