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Re: Sparc32 Floppy Availability



On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:47:33AM +0100, Robin Harmsen wrote:
> I tested the version with the 2.6 kernel from 
> http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/daily/sparc32/floppy/2.6/
> just briefly but enough to give some feedback
OKAY!

> first thing I noticed is that I need to boot with:
> linux root=/dev/fd0 (or some other root) otherwise I get a Kernel Panik 
> that it can't find a root
> 
> when doing this, at some stage I come to:
> VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
> but the floppy in the drive isn't ejected so I can't place in the new one.
> 
> it is getting late by now (00:48 GMT+1)
> tomorrow evening (from about 19:00 GMT+1) I'll try some more with these 
> floppys and test the other floppy images..
Please do!


Something else:
Can we avoid the duplicates in the E-mail?
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> 
> thanx,
> 
> Robin Harmsen

Cheers
Geert Stappers
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