Re: new potato boot-floppies
Perhaps you all should have read my post more fully. It is NOT an
old kernel, it is 2.2.18pre21 and I tested an install. It works
fine for 2.2.r2 Debian as I said. It SHOULD be used unless you are
posting yours for 2.2r2.
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:51:29AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > 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
>
> Of course, I've built them eight times in the past two days... You
> -could- just have asked on the list. I didn't upload them because I
> was in the middle of debugging...
As was I. Building and debugging, that is.
> > 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
>
> this.
>
> > 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
>
> It SHOULD NOT BE USED. You're avoiding a problem by using an old
> kernel where the problem didn't occur; I've fixed the problem. The new
> floppies will probably be on mirrors by tomorrow. You'll hit a lot of
> random issues by the fact that you're not using the kernel that the
> floppies were built with.
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:49:50PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > his image is just the old 2.2.16 boot floppy since the potato r2 boot
> > > floppies are broken. drow is trying to fix that in the r3 boot
> > > floppies.
You should have read the whole post. It clearly says otherwise.
> > ARGS. Is he "trying to fix this" or did he "actually fix this"?
> >
> > Drow, it would be a good time to appear now... :)
>
> Fixed. I just booted the same floppies I put in Incoming half an hour
> ago and got a good way into an install.
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