On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:00:33PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote:
>
> Somebody else pointed out the obvious, which is that I've not done a
> floppy-only install for many years, so it is using the images/files
> off the cdrom, so technically I am using those floppies.
that is what i meant, you need rescue.bin either as a file on NFS or
CD or partition. or you need it in floppy form.
> Yeah, that's what I said/meant. The boot-floppy-hfs.img floppy
> doesn't work the same way as the rescue floppy does for other
> architectures. My point is that for powerpc, the "rescue" function
> of the floppy with the word "rescue" in it's image file name is
> somewhat impotent. This can be somewhat confusing if you're not a
> graduate of the powerpc debian booting/installing gauntlet. Most
> especially because of the way the generic debian install docs refer
> to the rescue floppy for everything.
unfortuantly this is unlikely to change unless someone writes a better
oldworld bootloader. or makes quik work on floppies. (which would
still be a pain since you have to get into OF to boot a OF based
floppy, and getting into OF on some oldworlds is less then convenient)
> Wha? It takes the same amount of time to build a cross gcc as a
> native on my machine, namely about 30 minutes. Maybe you're
> thinking of other things that might be required, like libraries and
> such. That might take a while. ~:^)
yes i mean all the requisite work to putting together a cross
compiler.
> Why does this sound way too easy? I'm gonna have to check that
> out. The other thing is that theoretically, we should be able to
> get the hardware to tell us that a floppy has been inserted.
> Possibly only on mac hardware, but hey. Or we could just poll the
> drive or something. Hmmm, lots of crazy ideas...
i still would like to know what caused this to break in 2.2.18...
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Ethan Benson
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