On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:35:50PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Sven LUTHER wrote: > > my question was more what do you provide more than what is already in > > debian ? > > Good frontend for apt (soon anyway, right now it's a better dselect), > graphical install, system administration software. All stuff I want in > woody :)
Ok, ... like i said, the only thing listed here that could cause problems is the graphical installation stuff. more to it later. The rest should be arch independent, or is badly coded, ... > > So what are the causes of problems you could encounter : > > You forget number one: the installer. Yes the graphical installer. The biggest problem i see here is : - keymaps handling. - hard disk partitioning and such stuff. - Xfree install. the rest should be pretty standard. what do you sue for graphical install systems anyway ? a vesafb enabled kernel ? do you speak to the fbdev, or do you use vga16 ? fbdev is supported on all ppc kernels, so it should not be such a problem. > > Anyway, i know nothing of what you do, but i guess that the part of the > > software you use that will cause you the biggest problem will be the Xfree > > configurator, since debian/ppc use the fbdev server, while on i386 the > > server > > access the harddisk directly. > > Imaging on disk.. now that's a strange concept :) err, s/disk/ware/ ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER
