Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >a. Work to get the debian-installer package cleanly building for > > all relevant image types. > > cdrom and netboot are now cleanly building. At some future point > floppy may be added for sparc32, but that's not something I'm > concerned about. (Few sparcs I've seen have floppy. sparc64 openboot > apparently has bugs so it won't boot from floppy.) > > >b. Get a daily autobuild set up (see build/daily-build). > >c. Point manty at that so he can get sparc cdroms building. > >d. Work with me to get sparc turned on in its architecture list, > > so sparc images can enter the archive. > > I think silo-installer is needed before we start bothering with any > automatic building.
Well yeah, it's kind of pointless to get it building on the autobuilders before it can usefully install a system. However, it does seem like you could take care of d. in short order from where you are now. Note that the autobuilt stuff is only boot images, not full CDs, so the lack of a boot loader installer does not directly impact it. > >e. Test test test.. > > My next goal is booting from a hand-built cdrom, seeing if I can start > walking through the d-i prompts. Looking at the contents of the > sparc-mini iso, this is much simplier than I thought. > > Obviously, no useful install can be done with no silo-installer. Is there something badly wrong with the one in CVS? -- see shy jo
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