First, I'd like everyone to followup to debian-68k@lists.debian.org. That's what I'll be doing. Debian-installer is working on releasing rc2 and m68k has recently undergone a major reorganization (dropping build times by 2/3's). We now have support for amiga, atari, bvme6000, mac, mvme147, mvme16x, and q40/q60. Further, we're going to be releasing with 2.4.27 instead of the better- tested, but security-vulnerable 2.4.26. Daily ramdisk builds are at <http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/images-m68k/daily/>. Daily iso's are at <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/m68k/current/>. The d-i home page is at <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/>. The Installation Guide has also been updated, particularly chapter 5, please read over it and tell me what you'd like to see fixed (both in chapter 5 and elsewhere). <http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.m68k/index.html>. Minimum RAM seems to be about 24MB, although 2.4.x kernel users may get away with less (let me know either way). Now would be way better than later to get things fixed. CAVEATS: 1) 2.2.25 does support ext3, although I've had some reports that ext3 doesn't work right on vme. 2) atari-bootstrap needs an update and we're working on it. If the current doesn't work, please try <http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/bootloaders/atari/ataboot.ttp>. It allows booting linux on AfterBurner040, CT2, and CT60 accelerator cards with small ST-RAM, allows loading the ramdisk to TT/FastRAM, fixes Load-to-TTRAM GEMDOS header flag and more. (Thanks Petr!) 3) q40 hasn't been tested. I haven't even told Richard Zidlicky that I'm building images yet. No bootloader or documentation. I'm slack. Hopefully we can get that cleaned up soon. All comments welcome. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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