Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

[Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>]

Le jeudi 13 octobre 2005 à 13:14 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit :
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:29:21PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 15:24 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:14:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:03:13PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > > > > > Nope, they are available since a couple of weeks :)
> > > > > Sorry, but there is only "cdrom", "hd-media", and "netboot" in
> > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/.
> > > > > Is it "netboot"?
> > > > 
> > > > Oh, damn, the floppies are still disabled then, will fix for tomorrow then.
> > > > The main problem is that the drivers and other images are way too big for
> > > > floppies.
> > > 
> > > Ah, joeyh disabled them and forgot to reenable them once the miboot kernels
> > > entered the archive :/
> > So, I tried those available right now, and the boot image does not work
> > (the Mac ejects the floppy automatically after trying to read it).
> 
> Which "those available right now" ?

Those in
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy
("now"=yesterday evening).

> The etch/sarge/testing one will never work until we free miboot, so you need
> the daily builds, and they should work.
> 
> Also, it is well possible that your floppies or drive is dusty or something.
Your miboot.floppy of the other day worked, and I reused the same
floppies and tried with others, but boot.img did not work (it was
ejected by the Mac).

> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther