Bug#126001: (no subject)

[Wilmer van der Gaast <lintux@lintux.cx>]

Subject: boot-floppies: superformat does not work on (at least my) SPARC.
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-20
Severity: important

When creating a bootdisk, the installer tries to format the disk with
superformat. This program fails on my SparcStation5 (Input/Output error).
fdformat does work, though.

After some scripting to force the installer to use fdformat, the formatting
worked. But still I got no bootdisk. Don't know what the error message was,
there were no useful messages on tty3.. :-(

-- System Information (bogus, typing this on a different machine..)
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: SPARC
Kernel: Standard Woody install SPARC kernel.
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C