On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 00:07, sloopy wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 02:53, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:32:11AM -0500, Ray Knight wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 11:51, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > > This is a heads up warning. > > > > > > > > m68k is currently in the *worst* shape of all the architectures for > > > > debian-installer, and appears to have nobody working on it. > > > > > > > > If you want m68k to release with sarge, someone has to start working on > > > > it. :-/ Contact debian-boot to see what needs to be done. > > > > > > OK, I'll bite. What can I do to help? How do I contact debian-boot? > > > > Subscribe to [email protected] > > > > > I'd don't want to see m68k support disappear as debian is the only > > > distribution that support the architecture as far as I know. > > > > Me neither. Guess this means there's three of us now: me, Stephen > > Marenka, and you, with that difference that we'll mostly be working on > > mac, whereas your subarch is different, IIRC. > > > > You'll want to create an alioth account and contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > > get added to the debian-installer project; then, do a cvs checkout, > > build, and see if it works. You may have to create a different > > kernel-image-udeb package (or use the one from linux-kernel-di if you're > > using amiga), let me know if you need help in that area. > > > > 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 didnt see the original post, but i can volunteer if you need more... > > sloopy. > > p.s. i have several mac68k machines... currently only my Q800 is running > though...
Hello, I am currently using 2 Amigas (an A2000/060 and an A4000/PPC) running under Debian. If I can help to test or compile something .... -- Storm66 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> N/A
