Searching debian boot-floppies tester.

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

Hello, ...

As you may all be aware, i did the debian boot-floppies port for apus. 

The version of it released with potato has still some problems, apart from
both the kernel and boothack beginh a bit updated. The problem as the ones of
you which have installed debian/potato may know is a problem with loop
mounting resceu.bin when using the install os kernel & modules menu entry.
Because of this problem the later configure module menu entry is also broken.

Now i have discovered that when supplying the kernel with the additional cdrom
option, things should work ok. But i am not able to test it until this
weekend, and not really sure i will have time for it. Thus i am searching
people willing to contribute in this testing.

If you don't have a free partition, installing on your swap partition should
be enough for testing this. (i installed on a 32MB partition, but am not sure
if this will be ok fro potato, but anyway, you don't need to do the install
base system step, so much less could be enough).

Ok, now let's explain how this magic thing works :

dbootstrap looks at /proc/cmdline for the options passed to the kernel by
boothack. It will fint the cdrom option you pass to it (at the end, after the
root= ... stuff) and go into install from CDROM modde. It makes more sense
since the apus install (from harddisk) is more akin to a cdrom install and not
to a floppy based install.

So instead of trying to loop mount rescue.bin and failing, the install setup
will just copy the linux kernel from the disk and get the modules from the
drivers.tgz tarball. (they have to be in the apus subdir, they are if you copy
all the archive).

Ok, hope someone will find time to test this, 

Also if someone would reread the install.apus file and point typos, bad
documentation, obscure points and other such stuff to me, i will try fixing
that also.

And notice, it is kind of urgent, because i hope to have the docs at least
updated fro potato r2, which was supposed to be out last weekend already.

Friendly,

Sven Luther