On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:10:33AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:53:34AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > If I'm really messing things up (hey, I just got out of bed :), and you > > are using mac, then the best way *you* could help is, really, to make > > sure something more recent than 2.2 runs on macs as soon as reasonably > > possible. Debian-installer relies heavily on things such as DevFS and > > devpts (but especially DevFS), and the absence of a working 2.4 kernel > > for mac68k puts us back at using ugly hacks in userspace to emulate the > > needed parts of that, and is the main reason I haven't been able to > > produce a working debian-installer image yet. > > I'm currently using some ugly hacks to get the installer booted on mac > with 2.2.25. It boots into the installer, but I haven't gotten > through an install yet. Hopefully archdetect support will help. > > I expect to make some good progress next week when I'm near my test box > again.
Great! -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
