On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:38:41 +0200 Lars Nooden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Daniel Clark wrote: > > It says EFI is only starting to be supported directly in > > squeeze, so it certainly wouldn't work "out of the box" > > Not all set ups need it. I found I needed EFI only when a multiboot > setup included OS X. So gNewSense should use it. Where "it" is EFI? > > on metad 3, where upstream is lenny. > > Etch may be an advantage. I found that lenny appears to suffer from > some problems. For example, I could not get lenny to install directly > on sparc (a t1000). Eventually I had to install etch first, then go > via distro upgrade. When I ran Debian on the amd64, it was etch, > even after Lenny was released, but I can't recall why. Debian Sparc has had issues, both on the manpower front, and freeness resultant issues (like the NICs on the T1K/T2K systems using badcom firmware...) kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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