Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>]

Thank you for the help.

> > Package: debian-installer
> > Version: sarge 20040523 CD
> 
> This is rather old. A lot of packages have been moved into testing since
> then.

Wait -- a one-week-old CD is rather old?  It is the absolute very
latest one available if you follow the recommended path from
www.debian.org to get a CD for the "testing" release.

Try it.  From Debian home page, click "Getting Debian / CD ISO
images".  From there, pick "Assemble images using jigdo".  From there,
pick "Official Images" or scroll down; then pick "Official jigdo files
for the 'testing' distribution on CD".  This led me to:

  http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/

which has a powerpc subdirectory, which was last updated 24-May-2004 and
contains sarge-powerpc-1.jigdo, which is how I built my CD.

(I will note that just a week ago this "official" URL didn't work, and
 you had to go to the "unofficial" jigdo area on gluck!  But this has
 been recently fixed.)

> This indicates an old version of rootskel. Please try a current image.

This *is* a current image.  Where would you find a "more current"
image of the testing release?  If there's a better place, don't tell
me -- tell the www.debian.org pages, because a lot of people must be
getting sent to the wrong place.

Thank you.

	John