Re: D-I Etch+1/2 CD images (was: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection)
On Feb 6, 2008 1:41 PM, Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Frans, dear gazillions of m68k users,
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:01:53PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Monday 04 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > The required patches for the installer are attached. I have successfully
> > > tested them using a custom built netinst CD that had both the 2.6.18 and
> > > 2.6.22-686 kernels on it.
> >
> > The needed changes to D-I have now all been uploaded.
> >
> > > - There has as yet been no discussion about exactly which "Etch + Lenny
> > > D-I" CD images to create and exactly what should be included on them.
> >
> > I have just discussed this on #debian-cd with Sledge, and we've come up with
> > the following (rather brilliant) proposal.
> >
> > Architectures
> > =============
> > Most architectures just do not have the type of hardware changes that will
> > prevent a user from installing with 2.6.18 and then upgrading to 2.6.24
> > after the installation, so for those new installation CDs that use and
> > install the new kernels are really not needed.
> >
> > We therefore propose to _only_ create "etchnhalf" installation CDs for:
> > - i386
> > - amd64
> > - any other architectures for which a porter replies to this mail and can
> > demonstrate that some hardware that is not supported with the regular
> > Etch update, would be supported with the etchnhalf images
> >
> > Images
> > ======
> > We don't really want to create a huge number of extra image and certainly
> > not additional full sets. Not only would that waste mirror space, but too
> > many different images will also just confuse users.
> >
> > Solution we propose is that we only create a netinst image with the
> > etchnhalf installer and kernels. However, this netinst image will be
> > modified in such a way that it can be used as "CD 0" of the regular updated
> > Etch full CD and DVD sets.
> > This idea makes use of the fact that the D-I Beta1 installer will offer to
> > scan additional CDs if the installation CD is part of a set.
> >
> > Nice extra is that this also means that the "etchnhalf netinst" could even
> > be used in combination with Etch CD/DVD sets from previous (point)
> > releases.
> >
> >
> > Note that users of _all_ arches will have the option of using Lenny Beta1
> > netboot images to install Etch with the "etchnhalf" kernels.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > FJP
>
> I wonder if we should request support for m68k? 2.6.24 may be the last
> kernel for a while that supports SCSI drivers for m68k, many important
> drivers have been removed in 2.6.25, so this may be a kernel we will have to
> stick with for a while. Now m68k is not officially supported by etch, can it
> be supported by etch+1/2?
>
> Christian
>
make the cd either way. especially for macs that rely on scsi
and can now boot off cd.
>
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