I tried them. the "boot.img" floppy gave me video (80x30 chars). (I didn't try the "ofonlyboot.img" floppy.) Once it finished reading the boot floppy, it ejected that and asked for the root floppy. When it was done reading that it asked about a driver floppy, but did not eject the root floppy -- I had to do that manually, which I did -- and it read the driver floppy(s) and asked me to identify my ethernet hardware, which I did. It's a "bmac" -- I'm on the G3 because the floppy drive on the 6500 is no good and I haven't had time to replace it yet. When I get to try it out, the 6500 has a "tulip" card. It did the DHCP thing and then continued more or less as expected (I told it to use the "testing" repository on "ftp.debian.org" to get packages from) until it came time to partition a disk.
The first entry of the menu of options for partitioning a disk was blank for some reason, and none of the other options looked like they did anything useful. I tried a couple of them anyway, and sure enough, they didn't do anything useful. I also tried the blank line and it didn't do anything either. So I got stuck at trying to partition a disk. I rebooted the machine and I'm going to bed. Hope this helps! Rick PS: is there a utility for editing the kernel boot parameters? I'd like to experiment with some more esoteric video options, to see if I can get more screen real-estate than 80x30. On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 20:50, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:26:21AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > So, can we make a root.img file that will fit on a 1.440 MB disk? > > There's a new version of the images which should fix your problems: > http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/floppy/ > > One of ofonlyboot.img and boot.img should work for you (the other will > probably give no video output). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
