Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:02:25AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Did this work with a kernel 2.4? Do you know which options you need for > > running the kernel on an oldworld (minimal .config would be nice to have). > > I put a slim .config that I have

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Did this work with a kernel 2.4? Do you know which options you need for > running the kernel on an oldworld (minimal .config would be nice to have). I put a slim .config that I have used to boot an oldworld (PMac 9500 180MP) at

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

On Oct 15 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > Was that a volunteering sound I heard, Rog?rio? :^) Well, I won't promise anything, but I will try to help a tiny bit, if I can. This way, we could have yet another version of Debian working on oldworlds. At least, with a 2.4 kernel being installed by defaul

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:26:56PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Rogério Brito schrieb: > > As I don't know quik, I don't know if it's simply a matter of calling > > quik instead of mkofboot. > > I think that it should be an easy task, since quik just in

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:29:21PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 15 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > > The scripts are still there in boot-floppies; the piece we haven't > > mentioned is using ofpath to figure out how to set the nvram > > parameters. What's there works for most people. > > Why

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Rogério Brito schrieb: > >What I did was to compile my own kernel, gzip the vmlinux file in the > >root directory of the kernel sources (calling it with the appropriate > >name), grab the hfs boot image from woody and replace the kernel from > >the floppy.

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

On Oct 15 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > The scripts are still there in boot-floppies; the piece we haven't > mentioned is using ofpath to figure out how to set the nvram > parameters. What's there works for most people. Why exactly is Debian switching from boot-floppies to the new d-i? I thought th

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

Chris Tillman schrieb: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Rogério Brito schrieb: You could try to use yaboot-installer as a starting point or even make it possible to install yaboot and quick with the same installer component. Probably it's not too much cod

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Rogério Brito schrieb: > >On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >>Second someone has to write an installer component to install the > >>bootloader for oldworld after a successful installation. > >I don't understand exactly what

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds (was: Re: share partition between macosx and debian)

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:24:03AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > The d-i team would appreciate your help. We seriously need testers on > > oldworld, as none of us has access to such hardware. AFAIK d-i is > > completly untested on oldworld. The first step

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

Rogério Brito schrieb: On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Yes, booting on oldworlds via a CD seems to be possible only with proprietary drivers. OTOH, I could (when I had Debian installed on that oldwordl) boot it with miboot on a floppy without problems. What I did was to compile my ow

Making d-i work on oldworlds (was: Re: share partition between macosx and debian)

On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > The d-i team would appreciate your help. We seriously need testers on > oldworld, as none of us has access to such hardware. AFAIK d-i is > completly untested on oldworld. The first step would probably be to > build a kernel 2.4 (needed for devfs) which fit