On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 15:24, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > Whoa, hp300? I didn't know that subarch ever had a fully supported > > kernel. Is it worth adding full debian/d-i support? > > It doesn't have a fully supported kernel yet. > I've written a TFTP boot loader for it, and added "normal" m68k bootinfo > support, so I'm getting pretty close. Cool. > What does debian/d-i support mean? A partioner? Since I don't have a > driver for the SCSI controller yet, that's not going to make much sense > ;-) I mean kernel images and m68k subarch detection used in debian-installer to select things like partitioner, keymaps, and such. > I have no idea... the installation manuals for testing and unstable both > mention untarring the root archive named root.tar.gz for this, but I > can't find this archive anywhere. > > Other systems which support net booting like sparc or mips don't seem to > have it either, so I guess this is some leftover from the past. > > Normally an NFS root is just a freshly installed base system, not > flavour-specific. What I expected to be able to do was to mount my NFS > filesystem from the installer and then use that as the installation > target instead of a disk partition. But the installer really seems to > dislike not having any disks... Sounds like nfsroot hasn't actually been implemented in d-i yet. It'll certainly happen sooner or later. I put it on my list to check into once I get m68k ported. You can create a fresh base system with debootstrap (that's actually what d-i uses). -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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