On 04-Dec-08 21:27, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:51:11PM +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > When was that, and why did you not help out making sure debian-installer > worked on your hardware ?
Last time I tried was a few weeks ago. I did not even come to the point where the kernel started to boot and I had no idea how to check why this happened - let alone to fix this. > Well, my debmirror run gives me a 16GB size for sarge+sid, so your calculation > are completely OFF. Debian/sarge ships two full DVD isos for powerpc binaries, > which makes at least 9GB (minus 300MB or so for d-i). Most certainly these 9 GB include the 'Arch: all' packages. If you subtract those, you will get less than 5 GB for the binary powerpc packages which is exactly what I said. The packages from testing and unstable are mostly the same. The difference between testing and unstable at any given time is seldom more than 20% which is roughly equal to 1 GB. I am maintaining an amd64 archive which has 98% of all packages from testing and unstable and which includes the 'Arch: all' packages. That archive has about 10 GB, so I am quite sure about the numbers. > > So round about 5 GB will suffice for adding testing/unstable/experimental > > support for ppc64 to the official archives until 'etch' is released. Regards Andreas Jochens
