On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:42:23PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > 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). Hurrah. > Here are the problems: > I always have trouble to find the StartInstall scripts. Somewhere I saw an Okay, listed on my issues. I'll figure out what happened to them. > The kernel has to be uncompressed since 2.6 I think, amiboot can not use Probably no easy hook for this outside the installer. Can amiboot not be fixed? Anyone? > 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. I believe the problem is that the cdrom doesn't have 2.6.24 modules on it. Listed as an issue I'll track down. > Oh so frustrating... so here is something to cheer you up. Maybe you don't Sorry it was frustrating. Thanks for the report, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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