Re: [debian-installer page] No download link for s390x installer images?

Philipp Kern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.s390,gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot,gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2021-11-18 19:17, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote (Sun, 14 Nov 2021 13:30:09 
> +0100):
>> is there a reason, why we don't show download links for daily s390x 
>> images, at
>> https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ?
>> 
>> It has been like this from the beginning of s390x 9 years ago (when 
>> replacing
>> s390):
>> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/commit/e610fb4482915d16225e7414ee1566bd0edfe868
>> 
>> However for official Debian releases, we have such links:
>> https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/debian-installer/
>> 
>> Any ideas/comments?
> 
> s390 porters?
> 
> Does noone need installer images for s390 in testing?
> Or how you get them?

I always used the "other" images which *are* linked from there - you can 
load them into the hypervisor and they boot up the installer, but you do 
need working networking to grab the packages. I don't personally think 
that there is much value in the CD images in the first place. There's a 
theoretical possibility to use them but I'm not even sure if they would 
work properly at this point - it's definitely untested.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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