Unofficial debian-installer (d-i) test images are available for m68k/atari at <http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/test/atari/>. You need a minimum of something like 24 MB of ram to test these images. The home page for d-i has pointers to the Installation HOWTO and Manual at <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/>. The images include nativehd (for launching under an atari os), cdrom (should work with beta 4 cdroms), and floppy (which should be bootable). All the images should work with either a 2.2 or 2.4 kernel. I'd particularly like to know if the 2.4 kernel works, since the 2.2 kernel may get dropped from sarge. The cdrom iso can be found at <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/m68k/beta4/>. The netinst contains d-i + base; the businesscard contains d-i only. The initrd's found on the cdrom are not setup for use with atari. Partman, the default partitioner in beta 4 does not support atari. If you don't need to partition, it should work fine. An alternative partitioner which uses atari-fdisk (partitioner/partconf), is available from the main menu (either back out of partman or boot with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low). To get full support for atari partitioning in d-i, we need atari support in libparted <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239816>. Please send feedback to me. Although feel free to go to debian-boot@lists.debian.org if it's about something that shouldn't be specific to m68k or atari. As far as I know, these images have never been tested. I'd like to get them working before adding atari to the daily builds and perhaps beta 5. I've completed as much of the m68k/atari port of debian-installer as I can for now. The rest is up to you. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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