Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:26:44AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't know if it is possible to enable such a per subarch warning (altough
> > > it may be common the the m68K/amiga folk).
> > Floppys on m68k are completely useless AFAIK. Since Amigalilo is not
> > supported by Debian, who needs floppies anyways when everything comes on CD?
>
> Well, you may want to use floppies nonetheless, suppose you have a frechly
> bought harddisk to install from. Imagine the following scenario (if you have
> 1.4MB floppies, that is).
>
> - you have one rescue floppy, bootable and formated in amiga style (is that
> possible for 1.4MB ones ?). On this floppy you put your gzipped kernel, the
You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB floppies.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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