On 09/01/2017 10:51 AM, Finn Thain wrote: > The Debian 3 m68k installer ISO mounts under System 7, which is helpful. > On it you can find the Penguin bootloader, in Binhex encoded form: > > install/mac/Penguin.doc.hqx > install/mac/Penguin-19.hqx > install/mac/Penguin-Colors.hqx > > The etch-m68k ISO doesn't mount correctly under System 7 (it shows up as > an audio CD). > > When mounted under Linux you can find the necessary Penguin-19.hqx > bootloader (which is a catch-22 type problem) as well as an 1.44 MB HFS > floppy disk image: > > install/tools/mac/penguin.hfs > install/tools/mac/PenguinColors.hqx > install/tools/mac/PenguinPrefs.hqx > install/tools/mac/Penguin-19.hqx > > This HFS floppy disk image has the same files: > > Penguin Colors > Penguin Prefs > Penguin-19 > > I'm not sure that the HFS floppy disk image is needed. It means you can > get the bootloader without having to also get a utility to unpack the hqx > file. But you'd still need a utility to mount the disk image or copy it to > a floppy. > (...) > 3. Or don't bundle Penguin, just offer the penguin.hfs floppy image or hqx > file as a separate download. > > Actually, the Debian 3 hqx is already available at > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-3.0/main/disks-m68k/current/mac/ > > and a StuffIt archive is available from the Sourceforge project.
The code to handle Penguin is still present in debian-installer [1] and for it to work, I just need to make sure Penguin is available in Debian again. I will work on this issue, too. I'm currently performing tests on fs-uae so I can set up a test environment for the porting of the gayle IDE module to libata. Adrian > [1] > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/config/m68k/tools.cfg -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
