On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:35:18PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:57, Rog�rio Brito wrote: > > On Oct 14 2003, David R�hr wrote: > > > I would like to test the new installer on my oldworld in the near future > > (and possibly help with reports). If anybody knows of any gotchas, I'd > > love to know. > > > The d-i team would appreciate your help. We seriously need testers on > oldworld, as none of us has access to such hardware. AFAIK d-i is > completly untested on oldworld. The first step would probably be to > build a kernel 2.4 (needed for devfs) which fits on a floppy, as we were > told that this is the only way to boot oldworlds without using > proprietary software. Second someone has to write an installer component > to install the bootloader for oldworld after a successful installation. > > gaudenz
I can test the installer using BootX, and will let you know as soon as I get it going. We still need to trim the kernel down to fit on a floppy; and now we know (thanks Michel!) it can be no more than 3.8MB uncompressed, to work with quik. I don't feel qualified to do that part, but I can floppy-test once it's done. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
