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Re: Sparc32 Floppy Availability



On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:06:48AM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Robin Harmsen wrote:
> 
> >Is there any timeframe of when the Sparc32 Floppy(s) will be
> >available for download?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, there are no plans to support sarge 
> installation from floppies on sparc.

Which configuration file in the large build process of d-i
tells to block floppy support for sparc?

There is floppy support for i386 & powerpc,
so the buildsystem supports it.

Or should I ask:
Which configuration file in the large build process of d-i
tells to build floppy support for sparc?


> You should be able to install woody 
> (somewhat outdated stable release) for which floppy images are available
> from any Debian mirror:
> 
> $MIRROR/dists/Debian3.0r4/main/disks-sparc/current
> 
> Alternatively, you can use netboot images linked from
> 
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Yes, netboot is my preferred aproach.



Cheers
Geert Stappers

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