On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:00:33PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Somebody else pointed out the obvious, which is that I've not done a > floppy-only install for many years, so it is using the images/files > off the cdrom, so technically I am using those floppies. that is what i meant, you need rescue.bin either as a file on NFS or CD or partition. or you need it in floppy form. > Yeah, that's what I said/meant. The boot-floppy-hfs.img floppy > doesn't work the same way as the rescue floppy does for other > architectures. My point is that for powerpc, the "rescue" function > of the floppy with the word "rescue" in it's image file name is > somewhat impotent. This can be somewhat confusing if you're not a > graduate of the powerpc debian booting/installing gauntlet. Most > especially because of the way the generic debian install docs refer > to the rescue floppy for everything. unfortuantly this is unlikely to change unless someone writes a better oldworld bootloader. or makes quik work on floppies. (which would still be a pain since you have to get into OF to boot a OF based floppy, and getting into OF on some oldworlds is less then convenient) > Wha? It takes the same amount of time to build a cross gcc as a > native on my machine, namely about 30 minutes. Maybe you're > thinking of other things that might be required, like libraries and > such. That might take a while. ~:^) yes i mean all the requisite work to putting together a cross compiler. > Why does this sound way too easy? I'm gonna have to check that > out. The other thing is that theoretically, we should be able to > get the hardware to tell us that a floppy has been inserted. > Possibly only on mac hardware, but hey. Or we could just poll the > drive or something. Hmmm, lots of crazy ideas... i still would like to know what caused this to break in 2.2.18... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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