Re: Debian Installer beta2 working on an OldWorld PowerMac-6500/225

[Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>]

Hello Rick,

I'm trying to get debian-installer working well on OldWorld systems. In
order to achieve this, we need to :
    - have miBoot in Debian (for the boot floppy),
    - have a quik-installer udeb, as well as an openfirmware-configurator
      one,
    - it seems a miboot/bootx-installer package would be useful, too.

I've been a bit short of time lately, so i've not progressed much about
these things.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:25:20PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help!

There is :-)

As you probably know, miBoot is distributed along with BootX, in a
stuffit expander package. I haven't got any MacOS anywhere, so it'd be
cool if you could :
    - Turn BootX's stuffit archive (see http://penguinppc.org/~benh/)
      into a tar.gz containing MacBinary files,
    - Comaintain the package with me, especially the bootx part, as I
      won't be able to use/test BootX at all, so I can't do it myself.

Of course your help would be welcome on any of the above items, too.
Let me know if there's anything you'd like to work on, so we can
coordinate our efforts.

-- 
Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>