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Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys



On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:57:52AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 05:45 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> >># We'd like to use miboot, but it isn't in the archive yet ...
> >>#miboot -c ./tmp/powerpc-small_floppy_boot/miboot.conf
> >># ... so instead we do some grungy HFS hacking.
> >>
> >>I wonder who did that modification, and i probably pulled it in when
> >>upgrading :/
> >
> >Ah, it is fixed, Colin Watson did this :/

Of course, and I told you about it at the time, but you apparently
rarely remember anything that anybody else says.

I made those changes because the package *did not autobuild* without
them, which isn't acceptable.

> >I wonder if we should not do a miboot upload to non-free and be gone
> >with it. This would mean a debian-installer-non-free or something
> >such.

This sounds like a pretty awkward time to make such changes, but
whatever.

I certainly think that the debian-installer images should come with
instructions on how to make the floppy images bootable with miboot. I
left the miboot.conf lying around rather than deleting it for pretty
much that reason, but I lacked the expertise to go further.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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