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On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 23:34, Eric Sammer wrote: |
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> - There has been a lot of talk about Sun hardware and the size |
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> limitations on netboot images. Netbooting is a requirement for a lot of |
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> SPARC and MIPS based hardware so we need to find people who can do |
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> research and testing on a workable solution to getting SPARC / MIPS |
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> hardware to a point at which control can be passed to the installer on a |
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> live file system (similar to x86 hardware after booting from a cd). A |
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> number of other installers have worked around this (or made it work |
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> somehow) so we just need to find the proper resources to work through this. |
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FYI - Thanks to gmsoft and spanky, catalyst now contains (beta) code for |
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netboot image building. The code supports all Gentoo supported arches, |
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and then some. If you would like to test it out (please do), update your |
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Catalyst CVS tree or wait until 1.1.0 hits the tree ;) |
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Cheers, |
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John Davis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
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