Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: metad beta1 - amd64 macbook pro

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:38:41 +0200
Lars Nooden <address@hidden> wrote:

> Daniel Clark wrote:

> > It says EFI is only starting to be supported directly in
> > squeeze, so it certainly wouldn't work "out of the box"
> 
> Not all set ups need it.  I found I needed EFI only when a multiboot
> setup included OS X. So gNewSense should use it.

Where "it" is EFI?

> > on metad 3, where upstream is lenny.
> 
> Etch may be an advantage.  I found that lenny appears to suffer from
> some problems.  For example, I could not get lenny to install directly
> on sparc (a t1000).  Eventually I had to install etch first, then go
> via distro upgrade.  When I ran Debian on the amd64, it was etch,
> even after Lenny was released, but I can't recall why.

Debian Sparc has had issues, both on the manpower front, and freeness
resultant issues (like the NICs on the T1K/T2K systems using badcom
firmware...)
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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