On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:27:56AM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:04:31PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > > > Good news , m68k is reentered in d-i ! > > > > Well, the building of the daily D-I images has never really been disabled as > > far as I know. > > > > > But > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/m68k/iso > > >-cd/ > > > > > > are forbidden for users (temporary I hope). > > > > Afraid not. As long as m68k is not in testing, we cannot build CD images > > (all daily/weekly CD images use debs from testing). I have now removed the > > links to the m68k CD images from the D-I project webpage (only thing we can > > do really). > > > > If there are any installation methods that don't require CD images, you > > could try that. You could also see if someone in the Debian m68k community > > would be willing to build CD images using packages from unstable. > > I did download and try to boot the m68k build of this installer. The Which initrd? cdrom and hd-media want a cd image. nativehd will download everything from the net. > system in question is a Macintosh Quadra 840AV (64M RAM, 1G SCSI drive). > The mac flavor kernel boots with no issues and sees the major hardware > (internal video, keyboard/mouse, internal SCSI, internal ethernet) and > the installer does start in low-memory mode. I haven't downloaded anything > but the basic installer, so I haven't been able to actually complete > the install. > > The CD-ROM method looks like it could work if the SCSI CD-ROM module > was available. It looks like only IDE CD-ROM drives are supported. The Interesting, I believe the scsi cdrom used to be builtin. If that's not the case, then I need to add those modules onto the initrd. > odd thing is that there doesn't appear to be a network only install. nativehd > The installer sees and can configure the network, but I couldn't > figure out a way to get it to pull files from it. I haven't tried a > hard drive only install with the files downloaded to a local partition > at this point. > > Still, it does look like we're not in as bad of shape as we thought. > I'm just curious how much RAM I would need to avoid the low-memory > mode, and if there's anything I'm missing because of that. It's not > like we could do a graphical install on m68k. We can barely get X > running after the install. It looks like lowmem level1 kicks in at 64Mb and level2 at 32Mb. I haven't pushed any of those numbers in quite a long time, so we can likely get by with less than that. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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