Re: Creating sparc64 installation images

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-sparc@telemetry.co.uk>]

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We have had some discussion in private mails and on other lists
> regarding the creation of installation for sparc64.
>
> I am currently working on creating new installation images on an
> old Sun Blade 100 workstation I borrowed tomorrow following a guide
> that was created by Helge Deller (CC):
>
> https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/How_to_create_Debian_unstable_iso_images
>
> Helge already successfully built images for alpha and hppa [1], however
> those still require a dedicated mirror where some arch-specific files
> are stored, see [2].
>
> Thus, we should try to improve on the process such that the generated
> ISOs can actually be installed stand-alone (besides the mirror downloads
> that the netinst image is performing).
>
> Any further help and input is appreciated! Getting new sparc64
> installation images is actually important for us since we should update
> the kernels on the buildds as soon as possible since the outdated
> 3.2.0 kernels might be responsible for many of the segfaults we are
> seeing during builds [3].
>
> If anyone makes any progress or questions creating those images, please
> post them on the list, prerably in this thread.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
> > [1] ftp://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/
> > [2] ftp://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/alpha/README
> > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765567#83

I don't think I can usefully help since I'm too far down the Debian 
management/development learning curve (and have rather a lot of other 
stuff on my plate), but could you give us a pointer to where the netinst 
image can be found, compatible hardware, what sources.list should be, 
and where testers should report issues.

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