Re: [Emile-devel] Bootable Debian install CD-ROM for Mac 68k

[Michael C. <son...@gm...>]

Stephen, since we still have to roll a new d-i for lenny-m68k, can you
include both this and the updated mirrors list (d-ports mirrors, and
nemesisnetworks) on the installer, defaulting to lenny?
Michael

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Stephen R Marenka <st...@ma...> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:31:49AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>
>> Le 24 oct. 06 à 09:47, Laurent Vivier a écrit :
>>
>>> Brad Boyer wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:19:09PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>>>> Yes. But a "dummy" driver returning "noErr" doesn't work.
>>>>> I think it must call at least "AddDrive".
>>>>
>>>> Based on a look at the Driver technote from Apple, it looks like the
>>>> driver from the disk is used to access disk blocks in the ROM code,
>>>> so
>>>> you need a full driver to be able to use the disk. Although you could
>>>> leave out the write support in this case, I presume.
>>>
>>> I agree.
>>> The good thing: I think what is preventing to booting from a non-Apple
>>> drive is
>>> in the driver. So, by writing a driver, I can boot from my Yamaha CD-
>>> RW drive
>>> and use a CD-RW to develop the driver.
>>
>>
>> I've a bootable CD without Apple copyrighted materials (all free !!!)
>
> Woo hoo!
>
>> but it cannot boot from non-apple drive.
>
> Still great progress!
>
>> it is here :
>>
>> http://vivierlaurent.free.fr/debian-50-m68k-NETINST-1_emile-1.iso
>>
>> The disk content is from:
>>
>> http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/m68k/cds/daily/debian-50-m68k-NETINST-1.iso
>>
>> And it is only bootable, but cannot install debian because it doesn't
>> find the bits for testing/m68k.
>> (Stephen: where can I find them ?)
>
> We're (okay, actually Michael Casadevall) is working on lenny for m68k.
>
> Meanwhile, if it boots, you should be able to install etch-m68k by
> putting suite=etch-m68k on the kernel arg line.
>
> Great stuff!
>
>> in the TODO list:
>>
>> - switch to 32bit mode on boot
>> - detect the CDROM SCSI ID (currently if it is fixed to 3).
>>
>> The sources are not in the CVS tree for the moment (coming soon...).
>
> You do great stuff. We've got to get it into d-i. Mea Culpa!
>
> Peace,
>
> Stephen
>
> --
> Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
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