[Dwn-trans-commit] CVS public_html/src/Writing/DWN

CVS User joey joey at infodrom.org
Tue Dec 5 08:17:02 CET 2006


Update of /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN
In directory finlandia:/home/users/joey/Projects/Web/public_html/src/Writing/DWN

Modified Files:
	dwn-2006-42.wml 
Log Message:
Mention the reason

--- /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN/dwn-2006-42.wml	2006/12/04 20:01:56	1.9
+++ /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN/dwn-2006-42.wml	2006/12/05 07:17:01	1.10
@@ -50,7 +50,12 @@
 Debian <a href="$(HOME)/releases/etch/">etch</a> may be installed on these
 devices using <a href="ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html">\
 PXE-on-a-disk</a>,  TFTP for retrieving the installation media from an TFTP
-server, and <a href="$(HOME)/releases/testing/i386/ch04s06">netbooting</a>.</p>
+server, and <a href="$(HOME)/releases/testing/i386/ch04s06">netbooting</a>.
+The installer for <a href="$(HOME)/releases/sarge/">sarge</a> supported such
+notebooks, but the 2.6.18 kernel has grown so big that support for USB
+floppies had to be <a
+href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/12/msg00088.html">\
+dropped</a>.</p>
 
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