Christian, I made an attempt today to boot the 2.2 kernel and it crashes when I try to use the framebuffer in the bootargs or sits there and seemingly does nothing with framebuffer=false. Do I have to use serial console? Thanks, Mark On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 05:58 +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:40:35PM -0400, Mark Duckworth wrote: > > > > Still curious as to what the install procedure is. Do I have to burn > > those umpteen million CD's? Will D-I work, will the ATAboot boot a CD? > > The first CD should be enough, you can install the rest via the network. > Actually, you only need a handful of files to boot the install system, all > additional packages can be downloaded via the network, from a CD, or your > harddisk, if you can place them there in TOS. Might even be possible with > booting from floppy, didn't sarge ship with a couple of atari floppy images? > > I installed sarge on the CT60,using the 2.2.25 kernel that shipped with the > CD. To make beter use of the serial connections, I now use a 2.4.30 kernel > from Michael. This one does not allow me to mount the TOS partition though, > so exachangin files with TOS (ie newer kernels) is kind of painful. > > Booting from CD does not work AFAIK, but I have no CD-Rom connected to my > CT60. I think I did the initial install using a MO disk to store packages > there. > > Christian > >
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