Some issues

Steffen Grunewald steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de
Tue Aug 31 16:29:44 CEST 2004


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, disable the math
> > emulation (nearly 80k).
> 
> 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?

I guess the Centibots are not based on high-end i686 processors...
Correct me if I'm wrong!

Steffen



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