Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later  
> > > upgrade to
> > > 2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
> > Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8  
> > kernels,
> > so it is best to have the same kernel for installation media and  
> > reboot
> > kernels.
>
> As I don't know of any hardware that a.) needs to boot from floppy  
> and b.)
> doesnt work with 2.4 but only with 2.6 I still don't see a good  
> reason to do
> the work and do a rebuild of the _sarge_ miboot-floppies.
>
> Since almost 10 years (1997 I think) apple switched to newworld,  
> which all can
> boot from cdrom or have proper OF implementations to boot from  
> network - so I
> also doubt there is a hardware which needs this and I don't know :)

There are plenty of OldWorld Macs out there (I own 6 of them) that  
would benefit from a kernel 2.6 bootable Sarge floppy-set.

It's a one-time effort, not a continuing commitment.


> > The change is trivial, please try it :
>
> At the moment I only have/had to run "debuild", everything else,  
> takes some of
> my time which I rather invest in improving etch and lenny.

It's a one-time effort, not a continuing commitment.  And many people  
will benefit.

Please!

> Sorry for not using your patch, but you can always rebuild the  
> miboot floppies
> yourself ;-)


Sincerely,

Rick