Package: installation-reports
I retrieved the floppy images at
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/
so I could try out a floppy-boot install from them.
I got never even got off the ground...
1) The "boot.img' floppy seems to have nothing on it but the 'vmlinuz' kernel. There's no system folder or any of the other boilerplate necessary for a bootable floppy. I understand that there are technical licensing problems with miboot. Nevertheless, there at least ought to be a README file somewhere that gives the adventurous user, willing to ignore the licensing problems, the necessary magic incantations to transform this neutered thing into a live/virile/bootable floppy by mixing it with miboot (however obtained) under the light of a full moon at midnight.
2) The 'root.img' file is bigger than will fit onto a 1.44 MB floppy. Worse, for all it's size, it seems to contain nothing but a 'lost+found' directory -- no install scripts or anything else!
Is there a different place I should be getting the floppy images from?
Enjoy!
Rick
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Relevant excerpt from
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-
installer/installer/doc/checklist
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Release testing checklist. Successful installs should be reported
for each of the following before release.We're currently testing the debian-installer build 20040801 and the 20040806 sarge_d-i CD builds.
pass/fail (details)
powerpc
basic netinst cd
basic businesscard cd ok
floppy + cd [not newworld]
floppy + network [not newworld]
netboot
using pcmcia network card
32 mb ram
48 mb ram
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