Re: testing beyond Intel [PATCH]
Sven & Frans,
Maybe this is where I can be of most help.
I am a native speaker of English and have been told that my written
prose is clear and readable. I've been doing UNIX system administration
(with occasional forays into system programming -- kernels & utilities)
for 30 years (starting with Bell Labs seventh edition UNIX on PDP-11s)
I'm just getting started with Debian, so I'll bring a fresh point of
view to the topic.
I'm a computer networking hobbyist with a particular penchant for old
Macs, which I get more-or-less free from my employer when users upgrade
to newer models.
I would like to start by going over the PowerPC debian-installer manual
with a fine toothed comb, trying to follow the directions to install
sarge on one or more of my test machines. I'll report what I find, and
ask questions on the debian-boot list. Then I'll write the results up
as proposed modifications to the manual. If you like what you see, we
can talk about eventually getting me access to make changes directly to
the source documents.
Would that be helpful?
Rick
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:31, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:39:56PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Friday 19 March 2004 16:31, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Sure. Here they are (links tested first this time ;-).
> > > > http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/install_powerpc.en.pdf (460 kb)
> > > > or :
> > > > http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/install_powerpc.en.pdf.gz (254 kb)
> > >
> > > Those are heavily outdated though. Is there already someone who is
> > > interested in updating them ?
> > >
> >
> > What do you mean with 'outdated'. They were build from CVS (updated until I
> > think yesterday). So the content is as fresh as available.
>
> Yeah, but not really uptodate with the current debian-installer or sarge
> stuff. I guess nobody touched that ppc docs since the woody release.
>
> > If you mean the content is outdated as 'does not really cover the Woody
> > installation' then there is a team working on updating the whole manual, but
> > they can use help. See debian-installer/doc/manual/TODO on CVS.
>
> Yeah, but i wanted to know if there was already someone powerpc
> knowledgeable in that team or not. I am particularly interested in the
> powerpc related details, like booting, supported arch, name of the
> kernels, etc. I am not a particularly good english doc writer, and am
> currently busy with the powerpc d-i support, so if i need to write doc,
> it will come later.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
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