Hi, On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:48, Sven Luther wrote: > > dfsg-free means to boot the installer on old world, the fact that the > > only method available for sarge no longer works (BootX; which can't be > > used on new world machiens) with 2.6.16 kernels, and that the 2.6.16+ > > kernels fail to boot on old world macs You filed this as #377152 - but there is also netbooting, which might have problems on oldworld because of the size of the initrd, see #307232: Netbooting d-i doesnt work as well. At least for the OF 1.0.5 of my 7200 the 5.2mb initrd is too big, it works with a smaller (1.2 mb) kernels. According to ethereal it hangs after 8169 packets, each 588 bytes in size. This is roughly 4mb. I have no idea where the limit in other machines with a different version of OF is - but I would not be surprised to find higher limits. The 7200 is a fairly old oldworld modell... I have not looked into this again myself yet, as I first "concentrated" on miboot-floppies... > The official method of booting oldworld powermacs is using the miboot > floppies, and altough miboot is currently non-free, work is under way to > free it, and there are other people here who are working on bettering the > floppies, please participate to that effort or something. Also there is support for floppy booting in quik, it just doesn't work at the moment. But IMHO there is a realistic chance to make this work so we can have it in RC1 or 2. But even using the current miboot-floppies is not the end of the world... it's just non-free :( > There are rumors that you can use also a .coff kernel+ramdisk and use that > one to boot those boxes, which would be gully free, but nobody ever > investigated this. I dont parse this completly. Which method would this be? > So what would you gain by dropping support ? Thats exactly the question :) regards, Holger
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