Re: debian-installer for sparc
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 05:37:08AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote:
> It looks like I'll have some more time to play with d-i on sparc, as
> well as having additional hardware to play with. (A couple of
> sparc20's (one dual-processor) and an ultra-2 that will need to be
> back up in production Jan 5 (I'll swap drives before fiddling with
> it).)
>
> When I last played with it, I got the net image building, but the
> cdrom seemed to need a sparc64 machine to build. I didn't try
> booting.
I can't see why you would need a sparc64 to build the cdimage. It's
never been a requirement before. Can you explain the problem?
> Is there anything specific I should be working on, or should I just
> keep bumbling along?
We just need it building right now. I have to finish hacking SILO to
support larger kernel images so that things are worth while. Once I do
that, I'll add a silo-installer udeb to the build.
Remember that we aren't going to have sparc64 floppy images. These are
the types of images we will need:
cdboot (supports sparc32 and sparc64 in the same image)
floppy (sparc32 only)
tftp (sparc32 and sparc64 seperate images...maybe the sparc32/sparc64
dual boot tilo images will work again now that I have initrd
fixed)
I also need to get the sparc kernel images building so that they support
the initrd boot stuff, that way I can seperate out the IDE, SCSI and PPP
stuff a lot better.
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