On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:24:01PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi all, > > It is very obscure and I am not sure if this is generic > problem or not but when I updated my sid system on PowerPC > yesterday, at the stage of configuring fdutils, my system > was freezed. > > As I remembered, it was freezed at MAKEFLOPPIES or something. thats where it creates various floppy device nodes in /dev it probably does some sort of probe to figure out what floppy hardware you have. it very well could be pissing something off. > I wondered that this is because > > - fdutils is not usable on PowerPC at all, or its supposed to be useful in theory, in practice it appears to be hopelessly broken, unfortunatly.. (at least aph mentioned miserable failure of fdformat on irc). > - my kernel 2.4.4 lacked some necessary feature? (messages > said something about kernel...), or well 2.4 is not known for stability, you should try this under 2.2 and see what happens there too. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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