[Debian-ppc64-devel] powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated,
use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels,
miboot floppies dropped for now.
Frank van Berkel
frank at linux-os.nl
Thu Aug 18 13:26:47 UTC 2005
Hi,
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:30:50 +0200, Sven Luther wrote
> Since the 2.6.12 powerpc kernel in the archive now support 64bit
> kernels, thanks to the work of the toolchain guys with regard to
> biarch on ppc, i have uploaded kernel .udebs and triggered new
> reorganised daily builds of the sid debian-installer images.
>
> I was forced to disable the floppy builds for now, since they failed
> to build, and the 2.6.12 kernels are 200K too big anyway for miboot
> floppies, we need to find out how to make them smaller, and solve
> the non-freeness of miboot for the etch release.
>
> Also, as said, the power3 and power4 flavours have gone, replaced
> with a single powerpc64 one.
>
> Now, the 2.6.12 kernels are not yet in testing, so these images
> cannot be used to install etch, only sid, which may be broken for
> other reasons, and base-installer has been changed to know about the
> new kernels, so neither etch is installable for now, nor is sarge.
>
> Anyway, please all enjoy, test and provide feedback for these new images.
Will that d-i also work on an iSeries Linux LPAR Machine?
*-cpu
product: RS64-IV (sstar)
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu at 0
version: 0.0
I have a installer from Karl Kappel but I'm wondering if I could use the new
installers?
Regards,
Frank
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