On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:47:15PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > I got to looking at the ports status page > <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status> and I > noticed that m68k is listed as Booting amiga floppy and Building mac > floppy. > > That's interesting because amiga doesn't have any kernel udebs and > doesn't seem to be bootable from a floppy and the mac can't boot from > a floppy. :-)
The amiga kernel udebs are part of the linux-kernel-di source package. Goswin has been working on that. > In fact, listing what I gather how one can boot from the bf install. > > native hd: amiga, atari, mac > cdrom: BVME6000 > floppy: atari, all VME > tftp: all VME > > So I see building cdrom, floppy, and netboot. Should native hd get a > different name? Since debian-installer works slightly different as compared to boot-floppies, I had been thinking to make the cdrom-image get its stage2 udebs from CD-ROM, whereas the netboot image would get those from the net. [...] > BTW, I have mac booting into the installer under 2.2.25 using some ugly > hacks. I haven't completed an installation yet, but I'm not sure if > that's my box or an actual di problem yet. Any specifics? -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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