On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:34:43PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > For the remaining tasks, the generic install doc is the better guide > indeed. My statement above didn't mean I'd like to replace the generic > docs with per-arch ones. Just separate out the specific things to be more > flexible in structuring the description. except one step: 'Make Debian bootable from the hard disk' this step partially does its job on Oldworld powermacs, but not enough to make the disk bootable (i doubt this is possible reliably). on Newworld powermacs it does nothing of use, (its about as functional as /bin/true, it does nothing, successfully) [0]. other archs may or may not be in similar situations. there probably has to be a arch specific note about dealing with bootstrap slipped in somehow. [0] its completely possible to fix this on Newworld and make the disk bootable, reliably. i have written the tools to take care of this and they are already on the boot floppies, dbootstrap already knows pretty much everything it needs to pass on to these tools. the only requisite is the user must create an 800K type Apple_Bootstrap partition on the disk. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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