Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:45:51PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Glenn McGrath wrote: > > If there is a network > > Right, but we're just focusing on a system that has a network to get a > demo system working. And the farther down this road we go, the more I wonder if it's useful! A lot of things,

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn McGrath wrote: > If there is a network Right, but we're just focusing on a system that has a network to get a demo system working. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-17 Thread Glenn McGrath
Joey Hess wrote: > > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > For network installs, we could theoretically dispense with IDE and SCSI > > entirely. This is probably not generally useful, though, since we'd > > still need to support installing off CD and hard disk. > > Nah -- see, once the network is up, sp

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > For network installs, we could theoretically dispense with IDE and SCSI > entirely. This is probably not generally useful, though, since we'd > still need to support installing off CD and hard disk. Nah -- see, once the network is up, space constraints pretty much dis

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. > I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new > installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the > issues I have is t

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-17 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
-Os defaults to -O2 when I compile for i386 with math-emulation on.. Regards, Vaidhy > What about compiling the kernel with -Os instead of the default -O2, i > did some compiles and on a small kernel with nothing it made it 3KB > smaller, on my regular kernel which is 946KB it reduced it to 930

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi All, > > I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. > I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new > installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the > iss

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:00:16AM -0400, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > Hi All, > > I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. > I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new > installer will be just the kernel and the net

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi All, > > I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. > I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new > installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the > iss

Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-15 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi All, I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the issues I have is that to read the network drivers,