Re: Debian installer image for Debian/m68k
On 09/01/2017 10:51 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
> The Debian 3 m68k installer ISO mounts under System 7, which is helpful.
> On it you can find the Penguin bootloader, in Binhex encoded form:
>
> install/mac/Penguin.doc.hqx
> install/mac/Penguin-19.hqx
> install/mac/Penguin-Colors.hqx
>
> The etch-m68k ISO doesn't mount correctly under System 7 (it shows up as
> an audio CD).
>
> When mounted under Linux you can find the necessary Penguin-19.hqx
> bootloader (which is a catch-22 type problem) as well as an 1.44 MB HFS
> floppy disk image:
>
> install/tools/mac/penguin.hfs
> install/tools/mac/PenguinColors.hqx
> install/tools/mac/PenguinPrefs.hqx
> install/tools/mac/Penguin-19.hqx
>
> This HFS floppy disk image has the same files:
>
> Penguin Colors
> Penguin Prefs
> Penguin-19
>
> I'm not sure that the HFS floppy disk image is needed. It means you can
> get the bootloader without having to also get a utility to unpack the hqx
> file. But you'd still need a utility to mount the disk image or copy it to
> a floppy.
> (...)
> 3. Or don't bundle Penguin, just offer the penguin.hfs floppy image or hqx
> file as a separate download.
>
> Actually, the Debian 3 hqx is already available at
> http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-3.0/main/disks-m68k/current/mac/
> and a StuffIt archive is available from the Sourceforge project.
The code to handle Penguin is still present in debian-installer [1] and for
it to work, I just need to make sure Penguin is available in Debian again.
I will work on this issue, too. I'm currently performing tests on fs-uae
so I can set up a test environment for the porting of the gayle IDE module
to libata.
Adrian
> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/config/m68k/tools.cfg
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