* Riku Voipio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050822 00:07]: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:54:43PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Peter 'p2' De Schrijver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050821 22:39]: > > > > - must have a working, tested installer > > > > Trivial. debootstrap does that. > > > How do you boot the system to run debootstrap? (Note: the answer > > "gentoo" or "Windows" is not what I want to hear :) It is agreed that > > this isn't a too high barrier, but - well, we should still require it. > > If no (potential) port has an issue with that, it's even better. > How do you boot to a system to run debian-installer when there is no > bios or bootloader on the system yet?
Just take a look at the existing Debian ports, and you see that it's ok to use a bios that's part of the hardware. > Should debian-installer support > installing via JTAG? What happens on many embedded systems, > debianish system is debootstrapped on a different machine and put into > jffs2 image, which is then flashed to a pile of devices. Walking > through d-i every time would be very clumsy, so there is no use > for a working installer for those systems. Do we speak about ports to architectures or machines? If the sole purpose is to be able to flash some embedded device, frankly speaking I doubt that we need to host any *.deb-files on the ftp mirror network. Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
