On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:29:33PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:27:56AM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > 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. > > I'm actually not sure at this point. They all have the same file name > on the server, and I didn't change the name. Did you use the kernel that was with the initrd's? > > 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. > > It didn't show up in the driver list in /sys, so I presume it wasn't > loaded. The SCSI controller detected the CD-ROM drive and it showed > up in /proc/scsi/scsi, but no /dev/sr0 or any equivalent. I did find > the IDE CD-ROM driver in the appropriate directory in /sys, but this > system only has SCSI. > > > > odd thing is that there doesn't appear to be a network only install. > > > > nativehd > > OK. I'll make sure to download that one and try it. Would it be > inappropriate to suggest that this is a somewhat unintuitive choice? I'd be happy to give it a different name, please feel free to recommend one. It's very similar to netboot, but as we can't actually netboot anything I didn't want to be misleading in that direction either. There's a netinst iso that I don't want to be confused with since this initrd wouldn't use that (or any) iso. > > > 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. > > That makes sense, I guess. I don't think I have any m68k systems with > more than 64M of RAM total. The Q840AV could have 128M, but I haven't > filled it up completely. Some of my older systems only have 16M. Is > there an easy way to force it into a particular mode for testing? AFAIK, I need to build an initrd with a modified lowmem udeb. That's not really a big deal. If someone's willing to test it, I'll build it. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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