Re: 2.2 powerpc kernels in unstable ???
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:02:47AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Aug 25 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > The 2.2 kernel fits on a floppy, while the 2.4 does not. So fine, for
> > unstable, as long as it remains in stable -- for oldworld powerpc
> > boot-floppies users (whose CDs are not bootable and who must use
> > floppies or MacOS/BootX to boot the installer).
>
> BTW, talking about oldworlds, I would like to install Debian in a
> oldworld, but I would like to help testing the new installer program
> that is being made for Debian.
>
> Where should I look to help things? I don't think that I can spend too
> much time on that as my time is somewhat limited right now, but I can at
> least check what the status of the installer is and where it breaks on
> that machine.
http://people.debian.org/~mbc/di.html is your link.
Is a good start, you need a kernel with devfs and automounting of it
though, which i don't think is configured in the kernel-images i built.
That said, it seems to fail right now due to glibc/mklibs #206531 :(((
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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