Hi, On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:03, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > The resource is called CMDL. More detailed instructions are here: > <URL:http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/06/olh_ppc_miboot.html> ok, this is cool for everybody who as macos. but i would really like to see a linux-only solution. a question: the daily build powerpc floppies still use miboot - will this still be included within sarge or will they get removed / replaced ? an idea: for woody there was patch-floppy-image.pl (attached), which is a simple perl script which will search and replace the boot params in the floppy image. couldn't we provide a similar solution for sarge ? I tried it (with http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/boot.img from september 13th), but had no luck. I used "hexedit" and found parts of the commandline around 00006008 - but I only found parts of it. Looking at boot-floppy-hfs.img from woody (http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/) I found the complete commandline with hexedit at 00018e74 - that's why patch-floppy-image.pl work back in those days. another idea: sven, could you please daily build two (2.4/2.6) more boot floppies, with the extra kernel commandline parameter "mirror/suite=unstable" ?! That way, it would be much easier to test sid d-i on oldworld machines which can only boot from floppy - and where going back and manually downgrading the d-i priority is a very boring task as oldworld machines are mostly slow. would be very nice & helpful! regards, Holger
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patch-floppy-image.pl
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