On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2012/06/06 16:24, Peter Bisroev wrote: >> Thank you Ted. That makes sense. So what is the best way to skip making the >> floppy image when doing 'make release'? > > iirc, just edit SUBDIR in distrib/amd64/Makefile. > >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: >> > "it happens." The floppies are always tight, trying to adjust them to >> > make room after patching stable isn't worth the time involved. > > Sometimes there are intermittent failures when the ramdisks are very > tight, it is possible that building again may succeed. > > Wonder if it could just be the "-stable" in the version string which > tipped it over the edge... I may have missed something but I don't > *think* the other changes would affect ramdisks. >
Thanks Stuart. I'll try running 'make release' again, and if that does not work I'll modify the Makefile. But before I do that, is there anything I can do to help troubleshoot this issue? Cheers, --peter
