Re: Bug#864848: Should not talk about hd-media - that's armhf only
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 09:17:22PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:51:21 +0100
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> Package: installation-guide-armel
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> As seen in
>>
>> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/armel/ch05s01.html.en
>>
>> there's discussion of "unpack the hd-media tarball". This doesn't
>> exist on armel...
>
>Does that mean, that armel does not support that "Boot from USB stick in
>U-Boot" thingy, described under above link?
>If that _is_ supported, that chapter needs to be rewritten (simply leaving
>out the part where the hd-media tarball is mentioned, would make the whole
>chapter senseless/important part missing).
To the best of my knowledge, we don't have any such support in the
armel port. I'd love to be corrected on this, but I don't see anything
like that in our d-i builds.
>Adding arm porters to the loop seems to make sense here.
Nod.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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