Hi, I am very sorry for the delay in getting a new tar file out of the door. Maybe someone else wants to tackle this? The various patches needed to get cross-install up to date are in the mailing list archive. It is likely that there are some smaller issues in native-install, too. I am happy to be of assistence via e-mail. I just won't be able to pursue this until probably the end of next week.
After the needed tar file update (or along with), a small group should form and work with the boot floppies team. The only issue that remains to be resolved is a disk partitioner, but there has been considerably progress on this by Neal Walfield, and he will work on a port of GNU parted now. Glenn McGrath reported success in compiling parts of the stuff needed for boot floppies (udpkg et all). I don't know how boot floppies look today, so you will have to do it all: Find out what needs to be changed and how. It is modular, so it should not be too hard to work it out and not affect the linux people a lot. Also, people can proceed one module at a time and split up the work. I hope a lot can be shared with Linux. It would be great if someone could make a small report on this and post it here, so we all are up to date on this and can estimate how big an effort it is. If we can get Debian boot floppies by summer, that would be great. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
