Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75
Sven Luther wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > Malte,
> >
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> Rick, does this mean that the daily build floppies work for you now ?
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
Yes. It reads all the floppies and launches d-i as expected.
I still have problems with d-i once it gets launched. Specifically:
Booting off of floppy, there is no way to invoke "...PRIORITY=medium"
mode. It just does the default.
In default PRIORITY mode it always does:
the dhcp thing -- which succeeds, but it give me a random IP address --
I need to be able to specify the IP address manually. I think some
other folks have noted this and filed a bug report.
it always tries to install yaboot (even though archdetect says it's an
oldworld machine. I think something's broken in the yaboot installer)
I've filed a bug report.
In summary, there are still problems with d-i on oldworld machines, but
the floppy boot stuff works just fine.
Enjoy!
Rick
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