Hi Jon, On Thursday 21 April 2005 04:13, Jon Niehof wrote: > > > The floppy is good BTW; I ran a full write badblocks test. > > On the machine you were writing it ? > Yes. Just now, I downloaded the 2.4 images under OS 9.2 on the > PowerBook and attempted to make boot and root floppies with the > Make Debian Floppies script. The boot disc made OK; the root > floppy gave me an error about root.bin not being a valid disc > image. I tried to boot with the boot floppy anyway--same as > before. I have experienced both floppies and floppy drives which were so bad, so I had to try more than five floppies until I had a working boot floppy. Forget the root floppy until you had success with the boot floppy :) And be warned, if you write the root.img to a floppy with dd, you'll get a warning about EOF missing. I dont know how that sympton will look with macos tools. > I then took this floppy to the machine which I had been using to > make the discs before, dd'd it to an image file, and compared > this image to a downloaded image. No difference. This happen. One of the two drives might be dirty or something like that. > > The rc3 floppy-2.4 boot.img works fine here. You never see the > > mac-computer icon transform into a pinguin ? > Nope. Hmm. > > Maybe you can do netbooting using tftp? Try "boot enet:" in > > OpenFirmware. > I guess that's the next step, but I was under the impression > netboot doesn't work on Old World. It certainly works on 7200, which is oldworld as well. regards, Holger
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