RE: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer test

> > I must always mount the partition on target myself, but now > > I can use hda8 ! The new installer has finished his work. > So I guess that means we need more than 150MB(?) to install base? > Thanks, that's great news! Well, on my machine it does not finish. These are the results on console

RE: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

>Unforunately, it turns out that I didn't pay enough attention to the >way the "old" partition formatter/mounter (partconf) works. It uses >parted to list out partitions. In other words, both the new and the old >code that handles partitioning, formatting, mountng, fstab-generation, >and the li

RE: FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

>> ago with Mac or >> ATARI ide harddisks > 8GB but I thought it was fixed in current >> 68k-kernels. > That's the LBA vs CHS limit? Yes, fixed eons ago ;-) Actually I don't remember exactly (I even forgot who fixed it). It was when potato was the current release and the bug was in kernel <= 2.0.

RE: FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

> > harddrive under MiNT (which is a free OS as well) and even create > > ext2-partitions there. :-) > Sure, but you still have to be able to tell d-i which partitions you > want for swap and root, etc. Partman can't tell you want > disks you have. > The new images will (hopefully) default to part

RE: FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

> > I tried it with Didier Mequignon's CT60 kernel. > I guess we'll have to look into those patches. :-) You can get in contact with Didier at: aniplay AT wanadoo DOT fr >> tries to find a networking card. :-) >> Then it doesn't find any but I could continue > Does dmesg say anything about th

RE: FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

> > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/m68k/beta4/ > It figures, that one is screwed up (I asked for it to be listed in the > beta 4 errata). In any case, none of the initrd's on that > disk had atari support built-in. > Please try one from >

RE: FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

> > On Falcon/CT60 with kernel 2.4 and bootargs: -s -k vmlinux > -r root.bin > > root=/dev/ram video=keep load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=2 > > > > . > > . > > . > > Mounted devfs on /dev > > Kernel panic: No init found > > Try passing init= option to kernel > Which type of root image were you us

RE: FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

> Pick something supported by parted, if you want easy inclusion in > debian-installer. O.K. Yesterday I did some further tests. On my stock falcon with kernel 2.4 (2.2 just produces a black screen) this was printed on screen: compressed image found Then both floppy and harddisk LED start to f

RE: FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

> So it's 300EUR for the CT060, how much is a Falcon030? Are they still > available? It is 300 EUR WITH 060. If you already have a MC68060 it is only 200 EUR. You can only get a Falcon second hand. ~200-300 EUR. > And the Falcon030 also holds a HDD? Yes. Standard was 60 or 80 mb 2,5" but there

RE: FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

> > Falcon with CT060 (full MC68060 card by Rodolphe Czuba), > > 512 mb FastRAM, > > 14 mb ST-RAM, Videl (640x480x256) > You have an 060 Atari with 512MB RAM? Where would can one buy > one of those? Yes, I have. :-) It is an accelerator card for the ATARI falcon. You can get one at: www.czuba-t

FW: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer testers

Hello List, > > How much RAM can you fit in a Sun-3? Debian-Installer needs > quite some RAM > > these days... > > We've had a successful test at 24MB. I'm rather hoping some changes I > have planned will drop that to 16MB, without changing the form of d-i. > After that, we'll have to get a bit