Re: Debian Woody floppy images

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

Giorgio Terzi wrote:

> i think you know that i am giving my collaboration to test
> APUS Debian Woody boot floppies with the supervision of
> Sven Luther.
> I think that now the tests are more than beta and i wish
> that this software could be tested also by other APUS
> people that uses Debian.
> Note however that now this is still classified unstable.
> 1st) May i upload in some manner, somewhere in
>      Our SourceForce space this software, with the
>      needed notes and instructions ?

Sure go ahead! I suggest /home/groups/l/li/linux-apus/htdocs/debian/,
preserving the Debian directory hierarchy.

> 2nd) I have seen in Debian package lists that 2.4.4
>      kernel .deb appeared but after a while quickly
>      disappeared. (i however got my own copy... :))
>     Why this?

Probably a misunderstanding of the FTP admins. The source package was called
kernel-patch-2.4.4-apus and there was one binary package of the same name (for
the user to build his own kernels) and another one called
kernel-image-2.4.4-apus . I got a grave bug against the binary
kernel-patch-2.4.4-apus package because kernel-source-2.4.4, which it depended
on, was removed. I reassigned the bug to the ftp.debian.org virtual package so
that this package would get removed as well, but it seems all the packages
have been removed now. :(

Actually, I think the bug might have been against the source package in the
first place, that would mean I didn't look well enough, shame on me.

Anyway, I'll do my best to make sure there will be up-to-date 2.4 kernel
packages for the woody release. Speaking of this, are there any imminent
changes for 2.4.5 or can I go about making packages?


>      I had tested it with boot_floppies and all was fine:
>      The kernel package was correctly handled when MAKing
>      boot floppies and also the root image loading was OK.

Seems the move to use kernel-package for building does pay off. BTW did you
also get questions about lilo when installing kernel-image-2.4.4-apus?

>      The 2 driver's images that was created was loaded
>      correctly and was very amazing to see the (very big)
>      list of modules that was possible to configure!

I think a lot of modules I build won't be used by anyone, especially on the
boot-floppies, but as we're not limited space-wise, who cares? :)


> I am also continuing to update from Debian CVS my
> own archive of the software but i haven't seen yet
> added that two patches needed by APUS.

What patches?


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