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
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
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
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 would
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 would be
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 that
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.
Did
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 exactly
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 installs
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