Re: Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:54PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 15 August 2005 21:02, Sven Luther wrote:
> > As a result, the floppies present in sarge are entirely broken and will
> > never work. Also the 2.6 floppies, even with miboot present never
> > worked fiably, annd since we are doing away with the 2.4 kernels for
> > etch, this means that the miboot floppy target is going away then.
>
> Is the status for the images at
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/floppy/
> and
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/floppy-2.4/
> both the same? Are both broken?
>
Sure, none is built with miboot.
> Should we mention this in the errata on
> http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/index#errata
> for the Sarge images?
Yes, please. Also the install/pegasos file on sarge images seems to be empty,
i wonder how this happened, and just discovered this today. Probably a
debian-cd bug.
> Or should we try to get them removed / add a README in the those
> directories?
Not sure. We could free the miboot stuff and fix them ?
> Should maybe something be added on the powerpc port pages about this
> issue?
Sure, please go ahead.
>
> Does this also mean that the line for
> powerpc - oldworld - floppy-2.4
> on
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status
> should also be listed as "broken" and in red?
Well, the daily builds use miboot, and should work. Well, they used to at
least.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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