On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 04:40 AM, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:51:29AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote: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 --
Maybe a wishlist bug for load-floppy?
I'll file one.
The main reason it's an issue for Macs is that, unlike PCs, Macs don't have a big fat "eject" button on their drives. You have to use the paper-clip hole if the system doesn't eject the disk.
This is because MacOS is smart and Windows is stupid. MacOS always hangs onto a disk as long as it's mounted and ejects it as soon as it gets unmounted. Windows lets you manually eject it any time you want to -- even in the middle of a write!
So I got stuck at trying to partition a disk.
I stopped my testing when it came to partitionning (didn't want to kill the installed system...), but I think a possible cause would be missing modules in the kernel. I've moved the scsi drivers from the root floppy to the cd_drivers, in the hope they'd be automagically loaded over the network, but I'm not sure if this works.
I'll have a look.
I would have stopped anyway pretty soon myself, even if partitioning had worked. I just wanted to look at the existing partitioning scheme and verified that it's what I expected. Then I would have quit. I don't want to mess up a working disk either. By the next test-time I'll have my 6500 up with a working floppy drive and a spare hard disk installed. Then I'll be able to do a real test.
For what it's worth, I loaded both driver floppys (net and CD). Things got a bit confused when it asked me to pick the drivers I wanted it to install, so I may not have picked the right module(s). Which ones should I have used?
Hope this helps!
Yes, it's always good to know things are (more or less) working elsewhere ;-)
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.
Well, I've hacked a macintosh resource fork editor to be used by my
miboot package. You'll need some courage, however. Get the rsrce package
(rebuild it if you're not on i386) and miboot from:
deb[-src] http://sprite.fr.eu.org/dist/debian
as well as hfsutils and macutils, then see the hack in /usr/bin/miboot
to get the resource fork integrated back (it's rather ugly, but not my
fault ;-)
I'm not really sure it's worth it, however... Who needs something else than a 80 characters wide console ? :-P
Thanks, I'll have a look if I get some time.
-- Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rick
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