On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> The emile removal was (save me sort of forgetting about it?) mostly
>> that: a decision between the small and important things. It turns out
>> that Debian wants you to fix the small things and leave the important
>> things broken for longer because they are not in as much danger of
>> removal. *sigh*
>
> Emile is not that important unless you want to build a bootable installer
> CD for a mac (in the past, Debian/m68k installers were never bootable on
> Macs).
>
> The Penguin bootloader requires that you boot into MacOS first, but it
> works on all Mac models. (Emile didn't when I tried it a few years ago).
>
> The disadvantage of Penguin is the cost of a minimal MacOS partition
> (about 25 MB -- not much compared to a Debian installation).
>
> OTOH, I found that having a small MacOS parition is an advantage for
> system recovery and for kernel and driver testing and development.
I second that. In general, I would say that bootloaders don't matter that much
(to have in the official Debian archives).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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