Re: [Etherboot-users] re: netboot problem (update: solved in a fashion)

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>Finding the correct package versions was painful and un-debian-like since 
>the dependency listing (f.ex. for the netboot package) on the debian.org 
>package listings does not mention the dependencies. There should really be 
>a list of things that work with each other, at the netboot or etherboot 
>project sites imho.

There's a Wiki at wiki.etherboot.org. Feel free to make a page with the
info you have obtained re Etherboot. Etherboot is a volunteer project
and nobody has all the tools or the time to collect all the information
on their own.  Etherboot's policy is to require fairly modern tools but
not too bleeding edge. Otherwise maintainers would have to keep a large
collection of old tools and hardware and test them all every release.

The Netboot project determines their own policies so I can't comment on
that.

As far as I can tell, the main problem with Etherboot for you was the
386 CPU support. I find it hard to believe that 386 code generation is
excluded in gcc 3.3 and above, surely the -mcpu=i386 in CFLAGS would
have elicited a complaint? But if true this is troubling and we would
probably have to mention in the release notes that gcc 3.2 is needed for
386 CPU support.