Bug#666879: s390(x): please add a netboot image
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:35:15PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:22:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Hmmm. I didn't realise that s390 was so limited in terms of CD
>> booting. Is it actually worth spending much time on s390 CDs?
>
>Well, the .ins and the boot/ are critical to install in partitioned mode (in
>contrast to VM virtualization). As said I don't manage to boot from FTP, so
>something CD-ish is helpful.
OK. We also don't make *any* s390x images at all at the moment, which
I should probably fix. Is d-i working on s390x? If so, I'll add it to
the normal set of daily and weekly images.
>> Secondly - debian-cd doesn't make netboot images at all at the moment,
>> that's normally down to the d-i folks. We could do it, but it's
>> probably worth checking with them first.
>
>Ok, which means that they'd land in the normal mirror trees?
Yup, in .../installer-${arch} as with other arches once we have a
release.
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