On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:42:22PM -0400, dan wrote: > No simon is right on this one. Thie issue is that devfs has no support for > old world macs. We all know devfs is crap too. My solution would be to > remove devfs from the entire installer and try another system maybe using > MAKEDEV. Out of curiosity, what is so special about OldWorld Macs that they don't work with devfs? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Langasek [mailto:vorlon@netexpress.net] > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 12:55 PM > To: simon raven > Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: new installer > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:31:27PM +0000, simon raven wrote: > > LET IT BE KNOWN: > > > that OldWorld PPC sub-arch will not be supported directly in the new > > installer. > > > i think this sucks. > > > 1) there are plenty of still functional oldworld machines out there > > 2) i think it shows an utter lack of consideration for recycling, > > re-use of older hardware and the environment > > 3) is totally irresponsible > > 4) devfs is broken, crufty, and will be totally gone by 2.7 very > > likely, and using this will make oldworld installs impossible (at > > least from d-i; it'll still be possible to install from woody floppies > > and dist-upgrade). > > > go ahead and ban my IP or SMTPd, i'm seriously thinking of moving to a > > *BSD now, and i'll make sure that anyone and everyone i know that uses > > oldworlds *DON'T* use debian sarge stable. and maybe even not debian, > > for making such IMO, dumb decisions. > > The only person I know has *decided* that Debian won't support OldWorld PPC > in sarge is you. I'm sure that (as with all things around here), if there > are people willing to spend the time to figure out how to make d-i work for > OldWorld Macs, it'll be supported -- and if not, not. > > Supporting OldWorld Macs certainly isn't high on *my* priority list, despite > the fact that I have one sitting in my closet; they have always been a pain > to make work with Linux, and no one here is *responsible* to implement > features they won't use, sorry. > > -- > Steve Langasek > postmodern programmer
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