Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:41:08PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, sure i remember now. I should have done the change immediately though.
Maybe we would need some way to differentiate between an official build in d-i
in sarge, and the daily builds or something.
That said, i wonder what this brings over simply disabling the miboot builds.
> > >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.
Why ? There is no other way to do this, since building against the miboot
package is never going to happen as things go.
> 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.
Maybe even a full script or something such ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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