I've spent essentially all of today playing with d-i for hppa and ia64. More than a bit of that was getting local source checkouts and learning how to build images, and setting up target systems. Thanks to #debian-boot for helping me get up to speed so quickly!
On hppa, a local build of a netboot image after hacking /usr/bin/mklibs to work around a glibc problem Richard Hirst discovered weeks ago results in the ability to boot and get fairly far through an install. On a 712/100 with a 540meg disk, things seem to hang when the partitioning of the root filesystem hits 100%. On a c160, I got most of the way through the install of the base system before things locked up... perhaps a glitch to my console server so I'm trying again. Key learnings about hppa are that we need to get a fixed glibc into testing, and we need to ensure the kernel command line stays below 128 characters or palo will have trouble. The daily iso images have a command line that's too long, the netboot image I built locally was ok. I also think that d-i is running much more slowly on hppa than it should... not at all sure what that's about yet, but it deserves serious investigation. Since the machine I did my local builds on is the same machine being used for the daily hppa builds, the mklibs hack should cause the daily builds to work better starting tomorrow... ;-) On ia64, I successfully booted using a locally generated netboot image. Where is the right place for me to document the details of how to complete a netboot on ia64 in the installation documentation? I'll be happy to do that while the details are fresh in my mind... The base install on ia64 chokes because of a file overlap problem between libc6.1 and initscripts (/etc/default/devpts). I gather this also affects alpha, I'm not sure what the solution is. More tomorrow. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
