Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:40:37PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> Sven Luther wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > Malte,
> > >
> > 
> > Rick, does this mean that the daily build floppies work for you now ?
> > 
> > Friendly,
> > 
> > Sven Luther
> 
> 
> Yes.  It reads all the floppies and launches d-i as expected.
> 
> I still have problems with d-i once it gets launched.  Specifically:
> 
> Booting off of floppy, there is no way to invoke "...PRIORITY=medium"
> mode.  It just does the default.
> 
> In default PRIORITY mode it always does:
> 
> the dhcp thing -- which succeeds, but it give me a random IP address --
> I need to be able to specify the IP address manually.  I think some
> other folks have noted this and filed a bug report.
> 
> it always tries to install yaboot (even though archdetect says it's an
> oldworld machine.  I think something's broken in the yaboot installer) 
> I've filed a bug report.
> 
> 
> In summary, there are still problems with d-i on oldworld machines, but
> the floppy boot stuff works just fine.

Cool.

Friendly,

Sven Luther