Image Testing
- debian-installer 20051026 has hit the mirrors and needs testing.
check for latest d-i images on a mirror near you http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-m68k/
test daily builds http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/images-m68k/daily/
- please note here exactly what you tested
Issues
- unstable d-i 20051026 and daily 20051101 are confirmed to not have the main-menu bug. Don't bother with anything older.
- kbd-chooser failing (at least on mac), fortunately ignoring it works fine.
- check why it's not detecting the eth0 link and thus prompting for card choice.
- partman needs some progress bars.
- installing atari* packages on mac.
base-installer 1.35.5 testing
- hd-media/initrd22.gz 20051102, iso from 20051102
- it's currently failing in a lovely endless loop of "can't get a pty: No such file or directory"
- The last bit in the logs was about apt-install failing to install installation-report (odd, you think that'd be save-logs).
- I'm also seeing a bunch of the following, which I'm guessing explains the pty's.
Nov 3 14:22:29 main-menu[391]: (process:3523): File descriptor 3 left open Nov 3 14:22:29 main-menu[391]: (process:3523): File descriptor 4 left open Nov 3 14:22:29 main-menu[391]: (process:3523): File descriptor 5 left open Nov 3 14:22:29 main-menu[391]: (process:3523): File descriptor 6 left open
- Partman had a couple of those earlier in the log too.
D-I Development
incorrect serial console detection (needs better fix) #269077 (verify for etch, may be fixed) http://bugs.debian.org/269077
- linux-2.6 support
- q40, hp, sun3 support
- hd-media vs hfs (directories w/ spaces)
- lowmem
- graphical installer
- why copy debs to /var when using hd-media/cdrom?
- skip validating debs?
Bootloaders
vmelilo bts #250578 http://bugs.debian.org/250578
- package lxboot for q40
- package amigalilo (cts seems to have a package on gluck)
package emile: http://emile.sourceforge.net/
- emile does netboot! -- build a target?
Other Packages
atari partition in parted (bts #239816 http://bugs.debian.org/239816). Preliminary support at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/people/xilun/trunk+atari/ due to Guillaume Knispel. Please test!
atari-fdisk-udeb (bts #250582 XB-Subarchitecture http://bugs.debian.org/250582)
mac-fdisk-udeb (bts #250581 XB-Subarchitecture http://bugs.debian.org/250581)
- amiga-fdisk? (XB-Subarchitecture)
- vme: rawrite2.exe on cd? (ftp.root/debian/tools/rawrite2.zip)
- vme: license for bvmbug-G.bin and bvmbug.txt?
Documentation
http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/ needs work
- installation manual needs work
Notes
- atari/aranym can be used to test the whole installer
- amiga/UAE can test amiboot (to a point)
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