"-generic" was( Re: Optimized kernel builds: the straight dope)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:15:24AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 09:33 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:18:11AM +0200, Gnu/Linux Technology wrote:
> > > I jump to this post for asking if it is possible to integrate in the 
> > > hardware detection a script detecting the category of the cpu to install 
> > > a i686 kernel when needed by example.
> > > (Only if it is some free space on cd to include kernel-images, or if we 
> > > go to the solution of an install DVD.)
> > 
> > That is how it has always worked, as discussed many times on this list.
> > There is only one kernel image on the CD for space reasons, but others are
> > included on the DVD.
> > 
> For space reasons?! :)
> 
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 12:01 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > The current i386 and amd64 desktop CDs have a substantial amount of space
> > available.  What do you feel is being squeezed?
> 
> ...

There are perhaps 15M free on the i386 desktop CD at the moment, which is
substantial, but not enough for another kernel (not that we need one
anyway).

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 - mdz