Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded
Well, I was there yesterday... as I'm quite new to basically everything
debian, I didn't find anything.
I'm taking a shot at boot-floppies_2.2.1.tar.gz now.
I guess that's wrong.
Matt Porter wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:31:48PM +0300, Petter Sundlöf wrote:
> > And us regular joe's don't have access to that master.debian.org I guess?
>
> See http://www.debian.org/devel/incoming_mirrors
>
> > Anyway, what do you figure my "architecture not supported thing has to
> > do with?
>
> It's a boot-floppies check of /proc/cpuinfo. Looking at the kernel I think
> your probably claims it is "machine: PowerMac" which is not handled yet
> in boot-floppies. I'll fix it for the next release. There may still be
> a problem since one thing the pmac kernel code does is use getprops to
> check the "model" string in OF, I believe. That will return some thing
> different than "PowerMac" in the machine line if it is not NULL.
>
> I you have another Linux boot image like from LinuxPPC that you can boot
> and then cat /proc/cpuinfo to tell me what a beige G3 returns that would
> help, otherwise maybe Ben H. can chime in regarding what the possible values
> are for this field on the newer pmacs.
>
> --
> Matt Porter
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