Re: FW: Right SPARC 2.2.20 floppies on the Debian web site?
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:10:59PM -0800, McClanahan, David K wrote:
>
> P.P.S. When Linux starts up, at the boot prompt, SILO reports that this
> floppy contains the 2.2.18pre21 kernel, which does not match the 2.2.20
> the download said it was.
>
2.2.20 is the version of the boot-floppies, 2.2.18pre21 is the version
of the kernel.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McClanahan, David K
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 5:34 PM
> To: 'herbert@debian.org'
> Subject: RE: Right SPARC 2.2.20 floppies on the Debian web site?
> Importance: High
>
>
> P.S. I have re-downloaded the 2.2.20 (potato) floppies from the Debian FTP
> site and have found the following situation.
>
> When I boot with the floppies I created from the rescue.bin and root.bin
> image file, the install procedure asks for the "driver disk 1", after the
> disk partitioning, to install software. When I put in the disk made from
> the driver-1.bin image I get:
>
> "This is disk 1 of 2 in the drv14-sun4cdm series of
> 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST.
> Wrong disk. This is from series drv14-sun4cdm.
> You need disk 1 of series the driver series. ".
>
> Where upon it once again asks me to insert "driver disk 1".
>
> Are the right floppy images loaded on the FTP site?
This is a bug in the dboostrap program. I am going to fix it this
evening and get a new set of boot-floppies uploaded.
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