Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
* Junichi Uekawa | Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before | walking down that road. However, it is a problem which I was notified | of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, well, 2.4 doesn't | work on m68k and it doesn't look like it will in the foreseeable | future. So, help with getting this worked out will be appreciated. | | I have an impression that 2.4 doesn't (still) work on sparc32 either. I have SS10s running 2.4 happily, so whoever told you that was wrong, it seems. :) -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:44:19AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Junichi Uekawa | Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before | walking down that road. However, it is a problem which I was notified | of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, well, 2.4 doesn't | work on m68k and it doesn't look like it will in the foreseeable | future. So, help with getting this worked out will be appreciated. | | I have an impression that 2.4 doesn't (still) work on sparc32 either. I have SS10s running 2.4 happily, so whoever told you that was wrong, it seems. :) On the other hand, _I_ have a netra (SS5 sun4m) that can't even get past the PROM screen when trying to boot a 2.4 kernel. Oh well :) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] See, if you were allowed to keep the money, you wouldn't create jobs with it. You'd throw it in the bushes or something. But the government will spend it, thereby creating jobs. -- Dave Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
* Noah L. Meyerhans | I really wonder when debian-installer will be in a releasable state on | something like ARM or mipsel or s390. I'm not convinced we will make a | release before 2005. The only arches where d-i actually works are i386 and s390. | (As an aside, yes, I have started investigating porting debian-installer | to non-x86 architectures. This is not because I give a flying fuck | about them, but because I can't stand the thought that it might take us | 2 years to release sarge. Personally, I'd rather drop support (in | sarge, not necessarily sid) for archs that aren't installable by some | deadline.) Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before walking down that road. However, it is a problem which I was notified of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, well, 2.4 doesn't work on m68k and it doesn't look like it will in the foreseeable future. So, help with getting this worked out will be appreciated. Cross posted to -boot and -68k, followups to -boot, please. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On 26 Nov 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before walking down that road. However, it is a problem which I was notified of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, well, 2.4 doesn't work on m68k and it doesn't look like it will in the foreseeable future. So, help with getting this worked out will be appreciated. devfs support should be removed, in my opinion. There is still continuing talk of removing it from the kernel, as distributors(us and the other guys) have failed to support it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:28:33PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: On 26 Nov 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before walking down that road. However, it is a problem which I was notified of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, well, 2.4 doesn't work on m68k and it doesn't look like it will in the foreseeable future. So, help with getting this worked out will be appreciated. devfs support should be removed, in my opinion. There is still continuing talk of removing it from the kernel, as distributors(us and the other guys) have failed to support it. Certainly it will have a hard time working on any of the BSDs anytime soon, if it relies on devfs more than trivially; they have no concept of it, nor are they really likely to anytime soon. Use of /proc should also, prefferably, be limited to traditional /proc items and not the Linux view of using it as a sysctl area (though there is nothing wrong with calling 'sysctl' for such things on the BSDs, at least not on NetBSD and not that I *know* of on FreeBSD). -- *** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/ msg23868/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before walking down that road. However, it is a problem which I was notified of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, well, 2.4 doesn't work on m68k and it doesn't look like it will in the foreseeable future. So, help with getting this worked out will be appreciated. I have an impression that 2.4 doesn't (still) work on sparc32 either. regards, junichi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
