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Re: building d-i for sparc



Blars Blarson schrieb am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2003 um 15:04:46 -0800:
> In article <20031229162923.GC3092@kitenet.net> joey@kitenet.net writes:
> >a. Work to get the debian-installer package cleanly building for
> >   all relevant image types.
> 
> cdrom and netboot are now cleanly building.  At some future point
> floppy may be added for sparc32, but that's not something I'm
> concerned about.  (Few sparcs I've seen have floppy.  sparc64 openboot
> apparently has bugs so it won't boot from floppy.)
> 
> >b. Get a daily autobuild set up (see build/daily-build).
> >c. Point manty at that so he can get sparc cdroms building.
> >d. Work with me to get sparc turned on in its architecture list,
> >   so sparc images can enter the archive.
> 
> I think silo-installer is needed before we start bothering with any
> automatic building.
> 
> >e. Test test test..
> 
> My next goal is booting from a hand-built cdrom, seeing if I can start
> walking through the d-i prompts.  Looking at the contents of the
> sparc-mini iso, this is much simplier than I thought.
> 

Can you make these cdimages available for download, I would like to help
testing, but I don't have the time to build images myself.

-- 
Jörg Friedrich
Nicht wer wenig hat, sondern wer viel wünscht, ist arm.
		-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4-65 n.Chr.)



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