Martin Michlmayr wrote: > debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. > However, the images for ARM are already available. I'm now looking > for people who are interested in testing these installer images. > > If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machine for > some reason (for example to move from arm to armel), please use the > installer images from the following location and report problems to > this list: > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armel/current/images/
In order to switch to armel, I plan to do exactly this. As I'm not installing from the thecus firmware, do I just grab the initrd.gz and vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-iop32x from here and then boot them via tftp and redboot? My root partition is a RAID 1 mirror so what I was hoping to do was break the mirror, ensure that I can still boot to the active half of the mirror via RedBoot and then install to the other disc, creating a mirror that has one half missing. Has anyone done this successfully and does it make sense? I have vague memories of the Debian installer not letting me create raid 1 mirrors with one half missing. With the thecus, I won't have the option of pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fx to get a shell. Also, will the installer do anything that might prevent me booting from my old half-mirror? Also, when I add both discs back to the new mirror and delete the original mirror, might I have problems with the md devices being renumbered. Does the armel kernel (your DMA patched 2.6.26) support the old ABI too, i.e. will I be able to chroot to my old ARM installation while I'm migrating my configuration? Thanks Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
