Re: m68k debian-installer call for testers
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:26:09AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:23:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:35:22AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:46:04PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > > > 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 tried this last night on my Amiga2000. Doesn't quite work yet...
> >
> > Hello Christian.
> >
> > > The ramdisk option for Amiga is "ramdisk=20000", and you have to type it
> > > right as well... I also use the debian-installer/framebuffer option, not
> > > sure if that is necessary.
> > >
> > > Installation then starts, but it fails to detect my network card, it is an
> > > ariadne2 and I know it works. It is not built into the kernel, but it is a
> > > module in the kernel-image, some time ago the name changed from ariadne2 to
> > > zorro8390. I had a look in /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel, but it is empty? Can
> > > I load the module manually somehow (where are the modules hiding?) or do I
> > > have to build a kernel-image where the NICs are compiled in? The installer
> > > has been loading lots of ide modules, so there must be modules somewhere.
> >
> > Can you look in /lib/modules/2.4.24/drivers/net or something such, what
> > module is there. I suppose if the module name did change, then the
> > module name in linux-kernel-di needs to change also.
>
> IIRC kernel was the only subdirectory in /lib/modules/2.4.24 and that was
> empty. I will have a look again though.
Are you sure it is named 2.4.24, and not 2.4.24-amiga or something such ?
13:25 < joeyh> joey@kite:~/src/debian-installer/kernel/m68k>find |grep
-i zorro
13:25 < joeyh> ./lib/modules/2.4.25-amiga/kernel/drivers/net/zorro8390.o
13:25 < joeyh> joey@kite:~/src/debian-installer/kernel/m68k>find |grep
-i ariadne2
13:25 < joeyh> zsh: done find |
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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