3PI'm pleased to report that, thanks to the help of Santiago Garcia Mantinan, a bootable d-i netinst CD is now available for linux-alpha at http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/alpha/ alongside the existing i386 images. The CD should be bootable on any SRM-capable alpha system; if anyone has an experience to the contrary, I'd appreciate knowing. While the CD does boot, installing is very much a different story; this is definitely still alpha quality. You can boot into the installer, but I've found the following various problems in my initial testing: - the kbd chooser segfaults. This seems to be a different bug from 205381, as that bug was reported closed in 0.26 and that's the version on this CD. I'll try to investigate. - the language chooser gives me strange results: choosing Catalan gives me Spanish, choosing Spanish gives me Swedish, and choosing whatever language is above Spanish in the list (in unrepresentable glyphs) gives me Spanish. - debootstrap fails with an error ',: applet not found' (IIRC -- I don't have the log in front of me right now). That's game,set,match; can't do much if you can't start the actual install. :) - d-i is using cfdisk for all of the partitioning work, and cfdisk doesn't understand BSD disklabels. Since this CD only boots on SRM-capable machines, and SRM *only* understands BSD disklabels, this makes partitioning a bit of a challenge. :) (fdisk works just fine for partitioning, but fdisk isn't in the d-i menu.) There is also as yet no support for MILO-using systems. I no longer have access to any hardware running ARC, so I have no way to test MILO support -- and there doesn't seem to be a Debian package for MILO either, so some work is probably needed in this area by someone with an interest in the systems which need this. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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