Re: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 10:21, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> 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.
>
Dropping the 2.2 kernel from sarge will mean no support for m68k Macs
until someone fixes 2.4 or 2.6 in that regard. Currently there isn't a
stable 2.4 or 2.6 kernel for the m68k Macs.
--
Ray Knight <audilvr@speakeasy.org>
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