On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:03:54PM +0200, MPfeifer wrote: > yes i know that, that's also why i subscribed to this list, to see what's going > on here, and where i can help. > > i am not a programmer, but i've got some experience with scripting, and i've > always had a fascination for minidistro's. above that i've access to > sparc-machines (sun4c, sun4u), m68k (macintosh) and PPC (macintosh) > and of course x86. is there some part were i could look at? which doesn't > require real coding? or is it better that i go to the "translation" section?;) well you could do testing with powerpc boot-floppies (well all testing is good, but esp powerpc, there are very few testers there). there is now a completly new and replaced Make System Bootable function that works on NewWorld powermacs, and maybe oldworlds. both however need testing. and of course documentation needs help, i think you can find several things to do that don't involve coding. do a cvs checkout build and test the current ones, build and test. note there is many issues we are already aware of, i am not sure the best way for you to get aquainted with that list of known problems other then reading this list. for me i would just be happy to have another person testing the fixes to the bootloader setup thats been long needed on powerpc. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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