Re: latest cdimage?
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:00:02AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
>
> I've been working on building cd's. The results are at
> <http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/cds-m68k/daily/>.
Ok, I found debian-50-m68k-NETINST-1.iso, and it actually works a bit, no
ramdisk_size problems (using 13000).
Here are the problems:
I always have trouble to find the StartInstall scripts. Somewhere I saw an
amiga.info file but no drawer/directory for that. In Amiga OS every drawer
(directory) that should be visible for the user needs to have an associated
.info file, so he can click on it to open the drawer, needs to have an info
file. Any .info file we have for a directory will do (no the disk.info and
not the StartInstall.info files!). If there is a "path of info files" to
the StartInstall scripts, it is easy for Amiga users to find the install
files. I just created my own, but it is annoying when you start with a
freshly installed amiga, semi broken keyboard and without GoldED installed.
I am happy that I got the CD drive working and it even reads CDRW, so it is
a little easier to transfer files to the Amiga without wasting CD-Rs or
transplaning the harddisk.
The kernel has to be uncompressed since 2.6 I think, amiboot can not use
large compressed kernel images, at least I was never able to use them. There
is lots of space on the netinst CD, and even if compressed kernels would
work, every boot will save about a minute if the kernel does not have to be
decompressed.
With this, the installer actually started and I could perform some steps. I
would love to use the native PicassoIV resolution on my Amiga2000, but I am
afraid someody needs to hack the kernel for that.
Even my keyboard worked somewhat! dmesg showed a lot of amikeyb interrupt
messages though. It works sufficiently to select menus from the installer,
and for a while I could even use a shell, but then most key presses are
registered multiple times, makeing the keyboard mmmoosttttllllyyy
uuusselllleeeesss...... this is a PS/2 keyboard with the Lyra adapter.
Another kernel hacker is needed here...
The next thing that is missing seem to be all the modules. The CD drive was
not detected (IDE drive at the buddha controller), my Ariadne2 NIC was not
detected either. I have the feeling that no modules are detected at all
(lsmod showed nothing), so maybe I have to build kernels with all the
neccessary drivers built-in? Initramfs never worked for me on my m68k
machines, so the latest m68k kernels do not build the initramdisk with all
the modules at all. In normal use, that does not matter, since the basic
drivers for the SCSI and IDE controllers are built in, all other modules can
then be loaded from harddisk. But do we need the initramdisk to create the
initrd for the installer? Or should I build installer kernels, where we have
all those drivers built in? I can try that for my next tests, but I am not
sure if that is suitable for the official linux-2.6.
Oh so frustrating... so here is something to cheer you up. Maybe you don't
read amiga news, but you should know Eric Schwartz, this is awesome:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q
Christian
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