On Tue 14 Apr 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > Sorry, this pointer to MILO isn't supposed to be there; MILO hasn't been > supported for at least three releases now, because it's based on an ancient > Linux kernel that can no longer be built from source. And it looks like I
Note that the kernel version MILO is built from isn't related to the kernel version it can boot. I have kernel 2.6.17.11 running on my xlt, and I boot that using a MILO from 2002. I wouldn't be surprised if that MILO could boot a more recent kernel, but this is my firewall / mail server / dns server so I'm not going to experiment... > According to the table at > <http://debian.org/releases/stable/alpha/ch05s01.html.en>, the xl and xlt > systems don't support SRM, which means you can *only* boot Linux on them > using MILO. The only remaining site I know of for downloading MILO is > <http://milo.core-systems.de/>; but once you get the MILO images, you're > still pretty much on your own for getting Debian installed using it, since > there's no support for this in the installer. As long as you can start the installation with a boot (kernel) floppy and a root floppy (compressed root image that gets loaded into ramdisk), it shouldn't be a problem. At least, that's how it used to be done :) I guess I should start making images of my root filesystem... That disk has been spinning for >10 years :-) Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
