Re: OldWorld floppy images
I tried them. the "boot.img" floppy gave me video (80x30 chars). (I
didn't try the "ofonlyboot.img" floppy.) Once it finished reading the
boot floppy, it ejected that and asked for the root floppy. When it was
done reading that it asked about a driver floppy, but did not eject the
root floppy -- I had to do that manually, which I did -- and it read the
driver floppy(s) and asked me to identify my ethernet hardware, which I
did. It's a "bmac" -- I'm on the G3 because the floppy drive on the 6500
is no good and I haven't had time to replace it yet. When I get to try
it out, the 6500 has a "tulip" card. It did the DHCP thing and then
continued more or less as expected (I told it to use the "testing"
repository on "ftp.debian.org" to get packages from) until it came time
to partition a disk.
The first entry of the menu of options for partitioning a disk was blank
for some reason, and none of the other options looked like they did
anything useful. I tried a couple of them anyway, and sure enough, they
didn't do anything useful. I also tried the blank line and it didn't do
anything either.
So I got stuck at trying to partition a disk. I rebooted the machine
and I'm going to bed.
Hope this helps!
Rick
PS: is there a utility for editing the kernel boot parameters? I'd like
to experiment with some more esoteric video options, to see if I can get
more screen real-estate than 80x30.
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 20:50, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:26:21AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > So, can we make a root.img file that will fit on a 1.440 MB disk?
>
> There's a new version of the images which should fix your problems:
> http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/floppy/
>
> One of ofonlyboot.img and boot.img should work for you (the other will
> probably give no video output).
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