On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 04:12:27PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I can unfortunately not build updated installer images for Alpha since I > don't have an Alpha porterbox available where I can build the debian-installer > package for Alpha. > > I do have two AlphaStation 233 sitting in the basement at the university now, > but I don't have any time and space to set them up to be used as porterboxes. > > The only porterbox currently currently available to me is Michael Cree's "electro" > but the repositories of the chroots there don't include the debian-installer > component packages, so building d-i fails - at least last time I tried. I've carved out a bit of time to deal with getting my PWS back on-line. The above is the most recent post in the thread, as far as I can tell... Michael -- is it a relatively easy thing to do to make the d-i component packages available on "electro"? Another option: is the SMP version of the 4.9.0-3 kernel available to substitute into the existing netinst image? Unless I'm missing something, rebuilding the ISO with that substitution appears to be a simple task (assuming the existing initrd image for the generic kernel can be used). I *did* see further postings indicating that, while the SMP kernel *did* boot where the generic one wouldn't, there were other issues encountered subsequent to booting. I have not yet tried a prior netinst image, so there's a window of opportunity here are far as me being a willing/motivated tester of the installer if a working one can be cobbled together. After all, I'm currently sitting at the "worst case scenario" state and would lose nothing but a bit of time by trying a new installer :-). For that matter, if "the community" thinks a better thing to do would be to try out the Gentoo installer, I think I could get to the desired end state via that route as well. Opinions welcome. --Bob
