Re: More on Powerbook G3 install
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:41:58PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 james@netcsi.com wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 04:39:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > am i the only one who thinks `archetecture not supported' should come
> > > with a `I don't care' button? (yeah yeah one of these days i'll start
> > > mucking with the boot floppies in CVS..)
> >
> > You're definitely not the only one.
> >
> > And when *are* we going to see a set of 2.2.x floppies for ppc anyway?
>
> 1. Define `ppc'. Linux/PPC supports many PPC-based platforms
> 2. When someone starts working on them. BTW, who's paid for this?
Amen. I've asked for more help on doing actual boot-floppy builds and
testing for a while. I'm leaving my current employer that paid me to spend
_some_ time getting Debian ported to PReP and so I did the last build of
boot-floppies (that is 2.2.x based BTW) that sits in potato now. My new
employer isn't going to pay me to spend any time so I hope somebody else
becomes motivated enough to work on it. I sure won't have as much time as
did before.
Oh, and the current ppc boot-floppies works damn well good for my PReP
boxes (maybe not IBM's due to kernel problems). I also made them work
for pmac for my Tanzania Starmax box and made the changes available.
I guess the problem with pmac is all the demand is going from users who
are not motivated enough to spend some development time to make their
boxes work.
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Matt Porter
mmporter@home.com
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