RE: Slink install on Falcon. Can't make a boot floppy
I know I'm a loser! I received mail from Ken Macdonald showing me the error
of my ways. I read the nice PDF install manual dated Aug 1999 that was on
the Debian Web page (Installation Instructions > Motorola 680x0 > PDF
English) and didn't notice the install.txt in the disks-m68k/current/atari
directory.
Now I see my problem! I didn't spend enough time reading. Sorry.
Last night I tried to use bootstrap after I changed the bootargs file to
that stated in the instructions.
Now when I click on bootstrap from TOS, the kernel spits out a bunch of
stuff and then I get the following lines:
Root-NFS: Unable to open at least one network device
Root-NFS: Unable to contact NFS server for root fs, using /dev/fd0
instead
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
.... at which point I'm dead in the water again!
I admit this problem might also be a lack of my reading but I don't recall
seeing anything in install.txt that talked about this or needing a boot
floppy. I could be wrong though.
Thanks,
Brian
----Original Message-----
From: Michael Schmitz [mailto:schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 9:36 AM
To: Brian Hutchinson (EUS)
Cc: 'debian-68k@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Slink install on Falcon. Can't make a boot floppy
> After wrestling with my Falcon to accept the slink release (mostly SCSI
> lockups due to being in 256 color mode, after switching to 16 all went
> great) I can't make a boot floppy.
Correct me if I'm wrong: the install guide says that the 'make boot
floppy' menu item is both unnecessary and unsupported on m68k systems.
So why exactly do you insist on trying it anyway?
Michael
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