Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2023-06-06
> On Jun 9, 2023, at 11:04 PM, Carlos Milán Figueredo <cmilanf@hispamsx.org> wrote:
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> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 9:30
> Subject: Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2023-06-06
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> Hi Adrian,
>
>> Right, this completely fell of the table. I will try to prepare the changes for
>> the upcoming weekend. However, due to the current freeze for Debian Bookworm, I
>> cannot commit anything.
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> Even so, it shouldn't be hard to generate an initrd image that matches the kernel in the snapshot... or maybe I am wrong? I remember trying and having trouble getting compiled a new Linux/m68k kernel with a reasonable size for the Amiga (actually, the size of the snapshots).
The problem here is that the network installer relies on the kernel packages on the mirror which is not static for unstable.
If you have a network installer with a 6.1 kernel, it stops working the moment the kernel in unstable is updated to 6.2.
The network installer can only really work with a static mirror like you have it for testing or stable.
>> Laurent Vivier has also prepared some improvements for qemu-virt which we had to
>> shelf until after the Bookworm release.
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> Would that mean that qemu can be used instead of MiNT?
You can already install Debian/m68k on QEMU. The virt flavor is just a custom virtual machine which provides more CPU power and RAM. It doesn’t emulate a real m68k machine.
Adrian
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