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Re: While I was at it...



On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 05:07:37AM +0200, Christian Müller wrote:
> Sven,
> 
> 
> ftp://.../images/2005-10-28/powerpc/floppy/
> 
> thinking it was the latest and greatest of a bootfloppy I could get =), 
> I gave the 20051028 boot.img a try (pursuing a way around minimal woody 
> and then dist-upg to sarge).  didn't work, unfortunately - spits it out. 
> didn't try 20050615 or other dates yet <-- which floppies would make 
> sense to try out, which should work on a beige G3revII?  is there a way 
> to boot 31r0a powerpc netinst directly on this machine via 
> openfirmware/other methods (tried putting vmlinuz.xcoff.somewhat path in 
> the boot-device variable, it's probably utterly wrong).

It should work, can you make sure your floppy drive is cleaned and your
floppies are not broken ? 

Also, could you try booting :

  http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot.floppy

Which is known to work, and report.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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