Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

[Rick_Thomas <rbthomas@rcthomas.org>]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 17:57, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 10 September 2004 23:04, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > When it asked, I chose the
> > uchicago mirror as usual, and it loaded the installer-components
> > list (I think -- I didn't get the exact words) after which it
> > *again* complained about not finding any kernel modules!  I told it
> > to continue anyway, and it started downloading and unpacking
> > installer components from the uchicago mirror (presumably).
> 
> Ignoring this message will mean your installation is always going to fail as 
> the installer won't recognize your disk.
> 
> Missing installer modules probably means you are using an incorrect 
> distribution on your mirror.
> You probably need to select 'unstable' instead of using the default 'testing'.
> 
> You can do this by backing up to the menu (for example from country-chooser), 
> changing debconf priority to medium, and then choose 'unstable' when you are 
> selecting your mirror.
> 
> The reason is there are kernel-changes happening ATM and the version the 
> floppies are build with is probably not yet available in testing.

Well... these were the 2.4 floppies.  Does that make a difference?

I'll try it with a different mirror.  That's easy and shouldn't take too
much time.

The pmac 2.6 floppies have worse problems than that -- specifically, the
net-drivers.img and the root.img files are both too large for a 1.44 MB
floppy, and the Mac floppy drives can't handle floppy disks written at
2.88 MB density the way some PC drives do.

> 
> Cheers,
> Frans
> 
> P.S. <joking>When are you finally going to start work on the manual?</joking>

All joking aside... That is an important task!  But I kinda figured it
was less important than getting the software working at all on oldworld
hardware, since I seem to be the only one on the list who has oldworld
pmac hardware available for testing.  If there were someone else who
could do the testing part, I'd have time to work on the documentation
part...  Any takers out there?

Rick