Installation instructions can be found at
Tried the 3-14-04 build on a Quadra 840AV. Installed Sarge or the testing distro using the nativehd.gz files. Everything went fine. Just took a long time to load everything. Seems like the installer takes an awful long time compared to the previous installer.<http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/cvs/debian-installer/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO>. <http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/cvs/debian-installer/doc/boot-parameters.txt> might also be useful. Additionally, the mac ram disks require you to useramdisk_size=20000 as a kernel parameter. I intend to minimize that later, but for now, I doubt you can do an install in less than 40MB (my box has136MB and that's the only testing I know of).My daily builds can be found at <http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/images-m68k/daily/>The nativehd ram disk loads everything from the net. The cdrom ram disk loads everything from cdrom.
But once it's installed, it seems the video is running about 20-35% faster. Doesn't seem to drag like it used to. Got X running. Runs pretty nice. Seems quite a bit faster than woody. I like the extra utilities for partitioning and formatting the hard drives in the new installer. Took me about 6 hours to complete a base install and and to install the default packages that dselect offers plus enought X files to get X running. Seems like the installer does quite a bit of checking and verifying the files that slows the install process down.
If it takes 6 hours on a Quadra 840AV with 64 MB over DSL, How long will it take on 68030 or 68020 mac? But it seems to be an excellent version so far. The best yet.
Hank
Hopefully we'll have official cdroms before too long at <http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/>. Don't bother trying to install a distribution other than unstable.Please file success and failure bug reports.It would also be nice if someone could work on the documentation. For more information, check out <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/> and the debian-boot mailing list. Thanks, Stephen