Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

[John Schmidt <jaschmidt@uofu.net>]

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:54, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade
> > > to 2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
> >
> > Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8
> > kernels, so it is best to have the same kernel for installation media and
> > reboot kernels.
>
> As I don't know of any hardware that a.) needs to boot from floppy and b.)
> doesnt work with 2.4 but only with 2.6 I still don't see a good reason to
> do the work and do a rebuild of the _sarge_ miboot-floppies.

I have an oldworld ppc that can't boot from cdrom that would benefit from 
sarge miboot floppies.

Thanks,

John Schmidt