On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:33:48PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Hi, > has anybody tested the etch installer on m68k yet? I need to reinstall my I haven't tested it in a while. Maybe I can get it fired up this week. > Falcon/CT60 and I thought I'd give it a try. The RC1 release of the > installer does not include any atari kernels, since we activated building > for atari only after RC1 was released, so I expected some troubles. I haven't added atari back to d-i since it was dropped from the debian kernels. I'll try to get to that soon. > I downloaded the netinst CD image (debian-testing-m68k-netinst.iso) The > installer scripts are in install/tools and for the amiga users there even > .info files down to this directory. There is an amiga directory, but no > amiga.info file, that one seems to have been misplaced in the install > directory. The StartInstall files all contain this: > -k //kernels/vmlinuz-2.4.27-amiga > However, the CD image only contains vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-amiga for the amiga. > This needs to be adjusted. I have no idea if the StartInstall scripts for > the various graphic cards still work, the drivers are being removed from > linux 2.6.19 since they have been marked broken for a long time. So should we drop the StartInstall scripts or maybe just have a sample? > For the mac, there exists no directory in the install folder, ie no Penguin > boot loader, no bootargs, only the kernel image. Is this enough to boot a > mac with emile? I did not find emile on the image, though. I haven't added an emile install bit yet. Penguin is contrib, so it's in the dailies, but not the RC. > For the atari, nothing is on the image, but I hope atari will be included in > RC2, at least bootstr.app and a bootargs should be provided. I just used the > vmlinuz from linux-image-2.6.18-3-atari_2.6.18-6_m68k.deb, since the > ethernec driver is built in, but I haven't tested that image before. I am > using the following bootargs: > -s -d -k vmlinux -r initrd.gz root=/dev/ram video=atafb:sthigh console=tty devfsd=nomount load_ramdisk=1 debian-installer/framebuffer=false ramdisk_size=13000 Okay, I'll make these changes if you think they're correct. > With a 2.4.30 kernel, I can actually get the installer to start, however it > fails when trying to detect the network hardware, my 2.4.30 does not have > the EtherNEC driver (yet). 2.6.18 seems to boot also, but I get no readable > output on the display, which makes installing difficult. Am I missing a > magical option to enable graphics on my falcon? I should try to get a 2.4.30 > kernel with built-in EtherNEC, I have my doubts that the atari can load > network drivers from a floppy. > 2.6.18 does not include SCSI drivers, since they are (still) broken, so no > CD-Rom on my Atari and the MO drive won't work either. I could not copy the > contents of the netinst CD onto the IDE disk, TOS wanted to copy files which > are not present (Aa, Ab, ...), I was hoping I could install the Atari just > with the initrd and dowloading everything else from the net. Do you have all of Michael's patches in the debian kernels? Peace, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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