Re: [ss20]cdrom

[Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 23:44 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 23:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> > > The daily built images of the installer for sparc [1] have kernel
> > > 2.6.20. I don't know if the rewrite happened before or after that
> > > release, but it is somewhat more recent than the Etch kernel.
> >
> > The rewrite dates back to April [0] while 2.6.20 was released two
> > months earlier [1].  Apparently, the new ESP driver first appeared in
> > 2.6.22 [2].
> 
> In that case there is unfortunately extremely little chance that this will 
> become available in Debian. The only option seems to be a self-compiled 
> kernel.
Unless I'm mistaken, wouldn't booting using an earlier version of Debian
and then upgrading or netbooting also be options for at least the
install?

Cheers,
 - Martin