Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

Package: installation-reports

I retrieved the floppy images at

	http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/

so I could try out a floppy-boot install from them.

I got never even got off the ground...

1) The "boot.img' floppy seems to have nothing on it but the 
'vmlinuz' kernel.  There's no system folder or any of the other 
boilerplate necessary for a bootable floppy.  I understand that 
there are technical licensing problems with miboot.  Nevertheless, 
there at least ought to be a README file somewhere that gives the 
adventurous user, willing to ignore the licensing problems, the 
necessary magic incantations to transform this neutered thing into 
a live/virile/bootable floppy by mixing it with miboot (however 
obtained) under the light of a full moon at midnight.


2) The 'root.img' file is bigger than will fit onto a 1.44 MB 
floppy.  Worse, for all it's size, it seems to contain nothing but 
a 'lost+found' directory -- no install scripts or anything else!


Is there a different place I should be getting the floppy images from?

Enjoy!

Rick

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Relevant excerpt from
	http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-
installer/installer/doc/checklist
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Release testing checklist. Successful installs should be reported
for each of the following before release.

We're currently testing the debian-installer build 20040801
and the 20040806 sarge_d-i CD builds.

							pass/fail (details)
	
powerpc	
        basic netinst cd				
        basic businesscard cd				ok
        floppy + cd [not newworld]			
        floppy + network [not newworld]			
        netboot						
        using pcmcia network card			
        32 mb ram					
        48 mb ram
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