Debian-installer has gotten to the point on m68k that it's ready for a few more people than me to try to break it. Ideally, we'd like d-i to work before beta 3 gets released in a few weeks. I've only tested d-i with a mac Centris 650 running kernel 2.2.25 (2.4 kernels don't work on the mac). I'd like to see some other macs and amigas make a test run or two. I'm working on supporting atari and the vmes, but it'd be nice to know that someone out there cares enough to test, otherwise I may not build dailies for those subarchs. Installation instructions can be found at <http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/cvs/debian-installer/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO>. <http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/cvs/debian-installer/doc/boot-parameters.txt> might also be useful. Additionally, the mac ram disks require you to use ramdisk_size=20000 as a kernel parameter. I intend to minimize that later, but for now, I doubt you can do an install in less than 40MB (my box has 136MB and that's the only testing I know of). My daily builds can be found at <http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/images-m68k/daily/> The nativehd ram disk loads everything from the net. The cdrom ram disk loads everything from cdrom. Hopefully we'll have official cdroms before too long at <http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/>. Don't bother trying to install a distribution other than unstable. Please file success and failure bug reports. It would also be nice if someone could work on the documentation. For more information, check out <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/> and the debian-boot mailing list. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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