Re: boot-floppies on amiga/apus. friday cvs version.
Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> I wanted to build a new kernel, so that this will be built in the next version
> of apus boot floppies, but like said above, ... Maybe i will build a source
> only package and let the autobuilder do the build. Not sure it will work
> though.
No, autobuilder cannot build boot-floppies, it requires real root.
> Maybe it don't now anymore, but i assure you at the time i did that, it wanted
> ...
It hasn't for months.
> Well, i know that m68k is not using floppies,
That's not even true, I don't think. Atari can boot from floppies, at
least in slink it could.
> as well as apus. pmac on newer hardware is also not truly using
> floppies (they don't even have floppy disk anymore), not sure about
> older pmac hardware. so that lets sparc and alpha. Not sure
> aboutthem, but it surely is not the primary install method on sparc.
Sparc can boot from floppies, though some models such as my Ultra5 are
incapable of that.
It's true that floppies are pretty much deprecated but even a
*cursory* glance at the m68k documentation and slink documentation
should show you who is and who is not capable of booting from
floppies.
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