Re: m68k boot-floppies for woody

[David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:09:11PM -0500 wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:40:50PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > 
> > Nobody is working on m68k boot floppies for Woody at the moment.  This
> > is a bad situation.  Unless m68k porters start working on getting
> > things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't have an
> > install system and m68k will not be able to participate in the Woody
> > release?
> Which is more important, bf for potato or bf for woody?
I'll leave that to an authority to answer (my answer would be woody though)

> 
> Which distribution do I have to run to build bf for potato, resp for woody?
> I upgraded to unstable recently, will give woody bf a shot again soon if
> thats not to new to build bf,
sid is fine, most people are using sid to build b-f until the base system
freezes at which time we will use a frozen base. (at least that's my plan)

> but my network connectivity is worse than it
> used to be (ie uploading those files could take a few days in case I get
> something built...)
The important thing is to get working boot floppies.  Hopefully we could find
another machine to upload from, a few days is a long time to upload.


David