Re: sparc and alpha boot-floppies
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.19
Severity: important
Okay, this is going to be the bug report then.
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Colin Walters@lists.debian-sparc@14 Feb 2002 00:08:03 -0500:
> > I tried 3.0.19 on my x86 last week, but it sucked. There was no way
> > to install from network. Even worse, without fooling the Linux
> > kernel (hdc=none hdd=none) it insisted on an install from CD, didn't
> > even offer me to install from another partition. Haven't been able
> > to test more..
>
This is about all I can say. It happened with the compact 1.44 sets and
the normal 1.44 sets.
After initializing the swap partition and mounting an existing ext2
partition as root I choose for the next step, intall kernel+modules. It
immediately prompts me which one (of the two) CD-ROM drives I'd like to
use. I get the same screen when installing a base system.
Then I retried, but with the hdc=none, hdd=none flags to make the
installer believe there are no CD drives. Worked just a bit, now it
allowed me to install from an existing partition, fd0 or fd1 (IIRC). But
still no FTP/HTTP.
> I don't see any open bug reports on boot-floppies about this. Could you
> submit a detailed bug report, please? It won't be fixed if we don't
> know about it.
>
Of course, I've been submitting one bug report a day lately, but I
forgot about boot-floppies (and I should go fix some bugs myself as well
:-/)
Anyway, if necessary I can try to reproduce this bug with more debugging
information. Just tell me what to do.
Greetings,
Wilmer van der Gaast.
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