Boot Floopies for m68k Mac
"Christian T. Steigies" wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:08:20PM -0500, Ray Knight wrote:
> >
> > What are the chances of getting kernel 2.2.17 for the Mac on the next
> > Debian install disks? There is a patch file against the mainstream
> Want an honest answer? I would say zip. I will not use untested kernels for
> official boot-floppies, and I did not get feedback for the 2.2.10 kernels
> yet, which I planned to use for the next (official) boot-floppies.
>
> I can try to build 2.2.17 images, if it works fine on my amiga, I can try to
> build testing boot-floppies with them, but for this I need 2.2.17 images for
> _all_ subarches (amiga, atari, mac, and a bunch of vme).
>
There have been to many fixes to the Mac port since 2.2.10 to make it
worth my trouble to test using that kernel. Not to mention the numerous
security issues that have been corrected since 2.2.10. I guess I'll
just keep pointing Mac users to our SourceForge site, although it would
be nice to have boot floopies with a reasonably recent kernel.
--
Ray Knight
audilvr@speakeasy.org
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