On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:32:38AM +0100, Pip Oomen wrote: > On the debian-boot mailing list I noticed you are working on the > ppc/newworld installer and I was wondering what the current status is > for the nightly builds. Should it install now? Any point in burning a > netinst image?
Well, not really, my main focus is the powerpc/xhrp boxes, but yeah i can help you some. > I have a Apple XServe on which I would love to install Debian, but with > the last attempt (nightly build from march 9th) it failed the > recognition of the IDE drives (missing IDE modules), and thus I could > not get to the partitioning of the system. Mmm, do you have any kind of linux running on the box, if so, can you send us the lspci and lspci -n output ? > I am a bit short on spare time to fully investigate and participate in > the perfectioning of the installer for Sarge, but since I have an > incentive to get Debian up-and-running on the system, I can provide you > some feedback on the installation on XServe. The best would be for you to do an installation report, which you can find at : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template So this info doesn't get lost. > Another problem is that all other PPCs I have are running MacOSX, so > building the install image from scratch is not possible, since > cross-building is not supported, although I did spent some hours on > getting that to work ;) Ok. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
