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From: Eef Hartman on 3 Mar 2010 04:30
Auric__ <not.my.real(a)email.address> wrote:
> It's a kernel problem. 2.6 doesn't support booting from floppy any more (not
> officially, and maybe not at all).

And anyway the 2.6 kernel doesn't FIT on a 1.44 MB floppy anymore,
so you cannot boot it FROM floppy, and without that the install images
don't have much use.

I.E. in 12.0 (didn't have the iso's available so took the last "upgraded"
set of packages) the "generic" kernel (which relies on a RAMdisk for the
modules for disk and fs that have NOT been built-in) is almost 2 MB:
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1937976 2008-02-12 00:16 boot/vmlinuz-generic-2.6.21.5
while the "huge" kernel, which has all those modules built-in, is about 4 MB:
-rw-r--r-- root/root 4097848 2008-02-12 00:16 boot/vmlinuz-huge-2.6.21.5

There is NO way you can get that onto a floppy, the minimal bootable environment
is just too large for floppies nowadays.

And that was only for 2.6.21, 13.0 already uses 2.6.29.6 and -current goes into
the 30's (at the moment 2.6.33, but that probably will be updated again before
the release).
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From: uatech on 3 Mar 2010 12:52
On 3 Бер, 11:30, Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hart...(a)tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Auric__ <not.my.r...(a)email.address> wrote:
> > It's a kernel problem. 2.6 doesn't support booting from floppy any more (not
> > officially, and maybe not at all).

> *******************************************************************
> **  Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT   **
> **  e-mail: E.J.M.Hart...(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-278 82525   **
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Thank you Eef for taking you time and answering me. I got it
installed.
It's a bit of a shock to make a transition from 9/10.0 to 13.0: hal,
fontconfig
etc. All I can say, that is has changed. No I am reading and setting
up
my environment, locales an so on.

For now just a few notes about modern Slackware.

1) There are just too many many packages introduced by installer. It
should be made slimmer, cut it down to only the most essential,
all
the rest should go somewhere in extra/ or linuxpackages.net. The
dependencies should be better explained. You can read about the
author in a man-page or /usr/share/doc.

2) The libraries "for development" the developers wold rather cvs
checkout
themselves.

3) Better UTF-8 support. Everything should be compiled with --enable-
multibyte,
if possible. (Recompiling vim right now.)

4) Hilight/Middle-button paste doesn't work in vim (in console/text
mode
with POSIX locale, without UTF). (Vim behaves strangely too -
enters
in visual mode when you try to hilight text. Is it just me?)

But I do like firefox from which I'm writing right now, and this
newsgroup ;)
And now I am going to hal.
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