Bug#244367: PowerPC install from boot floppy mostly successful - still some problems.
Matt,
I retrieved the latest daily build OldWorld powerpc floppy images from:
http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy/
and wrote them to physical floppy disks.
Then on my PowerMac G3 beige minitower oldworld test machine, I booted
the boot floppy, and loaded the root floppy to ramdisk.
Then I switched to virtual console 2 and typed
eject -f fd0
What I got back was "eject: command not found"
I tried loading the net-drivers floppy and the cd-drivers floppy, to no
avail. I still got "command not found".
Should I have used a different source of floppy images?
Sven has been wondering where he should put the eject udeb. Maybe he
hasn't decided yet, and that's why it's missing?
Here's what he has to say... And padron my ignorance, but who is
"Frank"?
Enjoy!
Rick
======================================================
From:
Sven Luther
<sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
To:
Rick Thomas
<rbthomas55@pobox.com>
Cc:
Sven Luther
<sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, 244394@bugs.debian.org, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, luther@debian.org
Subject:
Re:
Bug#244394:
FWD:
eject-udeb
Date:
Mon, 19 Apr
2004
22:33:32
+0200
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:25:58PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>
> Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > Still, i wonder were the right place would be for this .udeb :
> >
> > 1) in the cdrom iinitrd to have access to it as soon as possible ?
> > (it doesn't seem to appear though in the first stage of
> > debian-installer's main menu, don't know why though).
> >
> > 2) have it be downloaded with the other installer components.
> >
>
> Well, if it is going to be used to eject floppy disks (as well as CD
> ROMs) it needs to be on the root floppy, so it can be used to eject
the
> root floppy when asking for the {net/cd}-drivers floppy. I know space
is
> tight there, but...
Nice idea, i didn't think about it. Can you work with Frank, the eject
maintainer, so that the eject .udeb is fixed to be able to eject more
than just the CD ? I will not have time for this these next 2-3 weeks,
so could you please follow up on this with him, in order to have it in
beta4 next week ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:32, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:04:13AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> > 1) It automatically ejected the boot floppy when asking for the root
> > floppy. Thanks for that, whoever put that patch in. However, when
> > calling for the drivers floppy, it did not eject the root floppy. I
> > had to use the paper-clip trick to eject it so I could insert the
> > net-drivers floppy. It really should eject the root floppy
> > automatically when it's done using it.
>
> Would you please run
>
> eject -f fd0
>
> on the second virtual console and report back whether or not this
> ejects the floppy?
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