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Re: testing the etch installer



On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:07:27PM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
> Le 20 déc. 06 à 11:21, Wouter Verhelst a écrit :
> 
> >[catching up on my huge mail backlog...]
> >
> >On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:33:48PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> >It would be if emile was used on the ISO to make it bootable; but I
> >don't think it can already do that.
> 
> EMILE can, but it needs to copy a driver from an Apple bootable CD,  
> that is not compatible with Debian policy:
> 
> http://vivierlaurent.free.fr/Debian_3.1_r0a_m68k_Bin-1-boot.img
> 
> You can also use EMILE from a floppy to load kernel image from the ISO:
> 
> http://emile.sourceforge.net/SNAPSHOT/cdboot-sarge-0.11CVS.bin.bz2

Is that driver redistributable? We could build a non-free image.

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Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
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