Re: boot-floppies!
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:50:20AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> So, could someone please get alpha, ia64, hppa, mips and/or mipsel
> boot-floppies into some semblance of functionality, and upload them
> to unstable?
Mips and mipsel are very complicated - We need very special kernels
and there is no "unified" kernel for all the subarchs - Decstation, Lasat,
SGI Indy etc. - The Lasat machines dont even have a way to install them.
One can only put a "base-root" on the disk and put it in again. Another
way is a proprietary image maker where you afterwards upload the image
with a proprietary tool to the machine.
> Ideally, someone could also actually use these disks to install a machine
> of that architecture and post a report to -testing.
> From what I understand, this *should* be fairly straightforward for
> everyone. If it's not, let me know. Architectures that don't have
> a recentish set of boot-floppies uploaded by the time the next phase
> starts won't be releasing. They don't have to be complete, they don't even
> have to work all that well. They do have to *exist* though.
Henning Heinold (Nick: woglinde) is working on the Boot-Floppies
for "mips" for the "Indy" and "Indigo2" which will only be network
bootimages like sparc.
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912
Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
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