Re: compressed modules

2000-08-02 Thread Randolph Chung
> Not sure if this may help you guys, but modutils 2.3.13 supports > compressed objects. Might help shave a couple of bytes of the size > of a ramdisk.. well, it's already stored in a compressed format on the floppy randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/ PG

Re: YAIE: Debian on a PowerTower Pro

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Please remember what you're dealing with here. It's written by > volunteers, maintained by volunteers, polished by volunteers. As it > happens, the only person working on Power Mac installs was -me-, and I > only have one. Not to mention a full time course load at the time. Having pulled off

Re: Question for the boot floppies team.

2000-08-02 Thread Jon Pennington
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:55:52PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Does it really make sense to ship disk images for 5 1/4in floppies? > Whoever takes them from CD has certainly a CD reader... > Would not be enough to leave them on ftp.debian.org? One having a CD-ROM and being able to boot from sa

compressed modules

2000-08-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Not sure if this may help you guys, but modutils 2.3.13 supports compressed objects. Might help shave a couple of bytes of the size of a ramdisk.. Wichert. -- _ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience

Bug#68021: can't locate module when installing compact flavour

2000-08-02 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:19:02 -0700, on Bug#68021: can't locate module when installing compact flavour, Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I boot from a 2.2.17-compact boot disk and use the standard root disk. > > There is a root disk that goes with t

Question for the boot floppies team.

2000-08-02 Thread Santiago Vila
Does it really make sense to ship disk images for 5 1/4in floppies? Whoever takes them from CD has certainly a CD reader... Would not be enough to leave them on ftp.debian.org? The reason I ask about this is that CD #1 now has only 900 packages, which is a pity (in slink, CD #1 had 1100 popular p