On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:20:19PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:48:57 +0200 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:12:09AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > > As you know I've been doing a fair bit of playing around with d-i > > > and debian on oldworld powerpc macintosh, although I'm only just > > > now getting a development machine setup. Because of the problems > > > with a lack of dfsg-free means to boot the installer on old world, > > > the fact that the only method available for sarge no longer works > > > (BootX; which can't be used on new world machiens) with 2.6.16 > > > > The official method of booting oldworld powermacs is using the miboot > > floppies, and altough miboot is currently non-free, work is under way > > I beg to differ. The manual for sarge didn't mention miboot floppies > at all (because they're non-free and apparently can't even be in
Because the powerpc manuals for sarge where mostly sub-par, please help improving the manual so this problem doesn't repeat for sarge. This issue was discussed enough here, and on debian-powerpc, that everyone should be aware of it. > non-free). CD booting doesn't work on old world (requires non-free > apple boot code), and netboot only works with built-in ethernet cards > (and not on all systems with them). That leaves BootX, which was also > non-free, but didn't require debian directly use it (unlike the miBoot > floppies). And did the manual mention that ? > > to free it, and there are other people here who are working on > > bettering the floppies, please participate to that effort or > > something. > > I intend to do what I can, but I don't think we should claim to support > something that we can't, at least not officially. Bah ... > > There are rumors that you can use also a .coff kernel+ramdisk and use > > that one to boot those boxes, which would be gully free, but nobody > > ever investigated this. > > How would this work? By setting boot-device and boot-file? I'd try > this, but mkvmlinuz complains about the coff format in the initrd. Well, as said, nobody ever tried this, so it may be buggy, i would be happy to debug this with you (but by middle of august, as i go into offlineland for 3 weeks on saturday). > > So what would you gain by dropping support ? > > We wouldn't be claiming to support something that isn't actually > supported, namely installation on old world mac. Also, if the kernel > situation doesn't get resolved, old world mac won't be supported in > etch. What exactly is the kernel problem ? And did you file a bug report about it ? Friendly, Sven Luther > > - -- > And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, > now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or > strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEta3shvWBpdQuHxwRArJ4AJ9o+PyYMOtoVxvI6F7E+BhgCAHZlwCffWou > ysPpcsOVjYbh5odVPQwtnFw= > =saxF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
