Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

[Jerome Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>]

Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 13:03 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:07:09PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 12:37 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:32:33PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > > > Le mercredi 21 septembre 2005 à 19:54 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:00:44AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > > > > > On Aug 18 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > > > I was forced to disable the floppy builds for now, since they failed to
> > > > > > > build, and the 2.6.12 kernels are 200K too big anyway for miboot
> > > > > > > floppies, we need to find out how to make them smaller, and solve the
> > > > > > > non-freeness of miboot for the etch release.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Humm, this is indeed a problem. :-( The non-freeness of miboot is a
> > > > > > secondary problem in face of not having a way to install the operating
> > > > > > system on the box. :-(
> > > > > 
> > > > > i managed to do a powerpc-miboot flavour build, which does fit on a miboot
> > > > > floppy. I would like (urgently) for folk to test it out, it is just a kernel,
> > > > > i need to see if it boots, not much more for now, before i go ahead and upload
> > > > > 2.6.12-7 which would include it, and subsequently build debian-installer
> > > > > images with it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The floppy is at :
> > > > > 
> > > > >   http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot.floppy
> > > > 
> > > > It boots happily on my PowerMacintosh G3.
> > > > Where am I supposed to find the matching root disk image file, though?
> > > 
> > > That was just a test image, no matching root, but i enabled this on the
> > > daily builds now :
> > > 
> > >   http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy
> > > 
> > > Or something such.
> > I guess it will only be available tomorrow, then?
> > No problem, just to be sure.
> 
> Nope, they are available since a couple of weeks :)
Sorry, but there is only "cdrom", "hd-media", and "netboot" in
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/.
Is it "netboot"?

> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
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Jérôme Warnier
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