On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:40:59PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:01:45AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > Indeed, I believe there are no 2.6 kernels at all for m68k in sarge. I stand corrected: there are no 2.6 kernels for d-i for m68k in sarge. > There are 2.6.8 kernels in sarge, for amiga the kernel works, for mac it > does not work, for the other subarches I don't know yet, some day my atari > is in a shape that I can test it. > > I have a 2.6.11 for amiga, which works very well and I have a 2.6.10 from > Finn, which works reasonable well on my mac. However, the keyboard does not > work on the mac, so it is not suitable for installation. The installer So hopefully we'll see this good stuff in sid? > however uses the kernels as mentioned by Wouter, and I don't think it makes > sense to rush newer 2.6 kernels into sarge, they would not be allowed > anyhow, but you can easily install them later, actually that is how I set up > my mac from scratch a week ago. But for post-sarge it will be good to have > something newer than 2.2.25 for mac... Agreed. > As for atari not being supported, I don't remember the problem right now, The problem is that d-i uses libparted which doesn't yet support atari partitions. > but in woody we had a bug with missing SCSI devices which has not been fixed > until now officially. It took probably two years until the first user > complains came in that they could not install. There is a workaround and > there are fixed boot-floppies on my pages. I don't think this bug kept > people from installing debian, since there was an easy answer to their > problem. I would even go so far and think due to this problem more people > installed debian/m68k. They had a problem and reported it and they had an > answer in less than half an hour. If that is not good support, what is, so > they where not frightened if other problems came up. I can also say that m68k d-i has continued to improve over time, even if slowly, so we might well want to recommend the etch installer to anyone with sarge problems. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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