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Re: boot-floppies for stable



On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:11:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > Michael Schmitz; are you saying that NO PowerPC's will build on Debian?  I
> 
> i hope he did not say such a thing, i am writing this on a Blue G3
> running Debian potato.  

 The quote was:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:40:13PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > At the moment, I know that powerpc does not build due to a kernel
> > issue.  I don't know anything about the other archs.

 He was talking about the boot floppies.  Most of Debian works on PowerPC,
and is really great once you get it installed.  That can be an ordeal...,
but it's not too bad if you are planning to leave MacOS installed (since
then you can use BootX).

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