Re: Some issues

2004-08-31 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:12:00PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Thomas Lange wrote: > > [snip] > > > If you need a smaller kernel image to fit on a floppy disk, you can > > > remove some network drivers, that you don't need for booting and > > > mounting the nfsroot. I

Re: Some issues

2004-08-31 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:57:28PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:39:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Please consider using this in your examples, too. > Will be made in the future. Thanks! > > Not in kernel, no module. Probably comme

Re: Some issues

2004-08-31 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:12:00PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Thomas Lange wrote: > [snip] > > If you need a smaller kernel image to fit on a floppy disk, you can > > remove some network drivers, that you don't need for booting and > > mounting the nfsroot. If you have a math coprocessor, disabl

Re: Some issues

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:12:00 +0200, Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I wonder why math emulation is available in FAI kernels at all. Is > there actually some realistic scenario where old/embedded i386/i486 > machines are installed via FAI? Debian kernels should (or must)

Re: Some issues

2004-08-31 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Thomas Lange wrote: [snip] > If you need a smaller kernel image to fit on a floppy disk, you can > remove some network drivers, that you don't need for booting and > mounting the nfsroot. If you have a math coprocessor, disable the math > emulation (nearly 80k). I wonder why math emulation is avai

Re: Some issues

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:39:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Please consider using this in your examples, too. Will be made in the future. > Not in kernel, no module. Probably commented out by mistake? > (CONFIG_FS_XFS is set to "m" in kernel-config from fa

Re: Some issues

2004-08-31 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > OK; I'll try. Where is the value written to variables.sh? > define rootpw in class/*.var. After all variables are defined, the > task defvar writes then to variables.sh. OK, found. This perl line is something to experiment with,