Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:15:34PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I tried again with the latest floppies:
>
> Index of /~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4
>
> Name Last modified Size Description
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Parent Directory 26-Aug-2004 21:35 -
> asian-root.img 13-Sep-2004 03:16 1.2M
> boot.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M
> cd-drivers.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M
> net-drivers.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M
> ofonlyboot.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M
> root-2.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M
> root.img 13-Sep-2004 03:18 1.3M
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apache/1.3.26 Server at people.debian.org Port 80
>
>
> No change.
>
> 1) The ofonlyboot still doesn't give me a text screen.
>
> 2) Loading the root-2 floppy still gives me an error message about
> not finding any driver modules, which I ignore and it loads the
> root-2 floppy anyway.
>
> 3) No reasonable combination of choice of mirrors
> (ftp.us.debian.org vs debian.uchicago.edu) and distributions
> (testing vs unstable) give me anything but "no disks found".
>
> 4) For what it's worth, at least one combination of mirror and
> distro (I don't remember exactly which -- I *think* it was uchicago
> and testing) complained about not being able to find any driver
> modules (presumably) on the mirror. But the other combinations
> didn't complain. (So maybe the uchicago unstable distro does have
> driver modules for the 2.4.27 kernel, but their testing
> doesn't... Does that make sense? Is there any way to check this?)
>
> 5) Two of the 2.6 floppy images are still too large to fit on a
> physical 1.44 MB disk.
Sorry, i haven't had time to work on this recently. On the other hand, Jens
managed to boot the 2.6 kernel in miboot, and i normally adapted things to it,
let's see how the builds go today.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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