<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I would be willing to help with ppc and ppc64. I am just a self-trained sysadmin, however, so I cannot guarantee it will be quick or easy, but I use ppc machines as project machines all the time and so I want to help. I will read the resources below. Please email me next steps. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jonathan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://jonathanhaack.com/" class="">jonathanhaack.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 12, 2017, at 6:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <<a href="mailto:glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de" class="">glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi!<br class=""><br class="">Thanks to the recent efforts within the Debian Ports projects, debian-installer<br class="">is finally available for the Debian Ports architectures [1]. Previously, the<br class="">installer images had to be built manually because building on the buildds always<br class="">required a testing repository to be available for a given architecture. With<br class="">the latest release of debian-installer, the build falls back to the unstable<br class="">and unreleased repositories for the required udebs.<br class=""><br class="">The generated d-i images for powerpc, kfreebsd-* and hurd-i386 can be found here:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><a href="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-$ARCH" class="">ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-$ARCH</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">For the remaining Ports architectures:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><a href="http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-$ARCH/main/d/debian-installer/" class="">http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-$ARCH/main/d/debian-installer/</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Now, since the process of building installer images no longer requires manual<br class="">intervention, the process for building CD images has been simplified as<br class="">well, still requires some manual work.<br class=""><br class="">Thus, I was wondering whether any volunteers would be willing to help building<br class="">ISO images for the various architectures. A rough guide can be found in [2]<br class="">from which the the d-i part can be omitted, however, a local mirror available<br class="">through the filesystem is still necessary (see MIRROR in CONF.sh). So, reprepro<br class="">needs to be used to set up a local mirror or the remote mirror needs to be<br class="">mounted with a FUSE module or similar.<br class=""><br class="">In order to use the debian-installer images for building CD images, they have<br class="">to be downloaded and extracted (for the remaining Ports architectures above)<br class="">and placed into the directory pointed to by DI_DIR in the easy-build.sh<br class="">script, e.g.: export DI_DIR="/srv/d-i/debian-installer/installer/build/tmp/cdrom/.<br class=""><br class="">Would be great if we could get several people work on this and create ISOs<br class="">for alpha, hppa, powerpc, ppc64 and so on. Please note: It's not necessary<br class="">to run debian-cd on the same architecture as the target architecture of<br class="">the ISO images. Hence, using an amd64 host should be fine.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Adrian<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">[1] <a href="https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=debian-installer&suite=sid" class="">https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=debian-installer&suite=sid</a><br class="">[2] <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/CreateDebianInstallerImages" class="">https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/CreateDebianInstallerImages</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class=""> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz<br class="">: :' : Debian Developer - <a href="mailto:glaubitz@debian.org" class="">glaubitz@debian.org</a><br class="">`. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - <a href="mailto:glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de" class="">glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de</a><br class=""> `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>