Re: new potato boot-floppies
For people who care about powerpc stuff....
While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only
ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to
build a boot floppy for oldworld apple powermacs that solves the
dreaded no response from keyboard when prompting to insert root
floppy problem. It seems to work for doing installs on the one
machine that I was able to test it on, an Apple 7200/75. It may
spew out a few error messages at one or two places about missing
symbols, can't load modules. This should be ignored, unless someone
discovers a piece of hardware that isn't supported during the
install phase, in which case I'll fix it. It should be fine,
though. This works for the 2.2r2 Debian release for powerpc
oldworld macs ONLY! It has not been tested on any other hardware.
I'm not sure there IS any other hardware where it could be used.
This should hold eager Debian users for powerpc until dummy-console
gets fixed for the new input layer. Note that this link used to
point to a 2.2.17 based floppy I built a while ago that really
wasn't all that useful.
http://www.netfall.com/powerpc
Download the file boot-floppy-oldworld.img
Cheers,
a
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> You can find 2.2.23 of i386 boot-floppies (already uploaded for
> Potato) at
>
> http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-14/
>
> Please test these, especially if you have udma drive controller or a
> lot of IDE drives (such as hdh).
>
> Included is the change log.
>
> Bug reports should go in to bug tracking system -- please use the
> 'potato' tag if possible. Note that we are only accepting critical
> bug reports for Potato at this time, since most of our efforts have
> shifted to woody.
>
> --
> .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
>
> boot-floppies (2.2.23) stable; urgency=low
>
> * Matt Kraai:
> - fix the drive_blocks array for hdg, hdh, hdi, and hdj
> (closes: Bug#90967)
> * Daniel Jacobowitz:
> - bump PowerPC to kernel 2.2.19.
> - fix URLs for bootx/bootvars
> - use \( \) in Makefile find invocation
> - bootprep.sh: Turn on CONFIG_IP_PNP_ENABLE also
> * Phil Blundell:
> - bump ARM kernel to 2.2.19
>
> -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:02:35 -0400
>
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