On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:15:34PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I tried again with the latest floppies: > > Index of /~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4 > > Name Last modified Size Description > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Parent Directory 26-Aug-2004 21:35 - > asian-root.img 13-Sep-2004 03:16 1.2M > boot.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M > cd-drivers.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M > net-drivers.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M > ofonlyboot.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M > root-2.img 13-Sep-2004 03:17 1.4M > root.img 13-Sep-2004 03:18 1.3M > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apache/1.3.26 Server at people.debian.org Port 80 > > > No change. > > 1) The ofonlyboot still doesn't give me a text screen. > > 2) Loading the root-2 floppy still gives me an error message about > not finding any driver modules, which I ignore and it loads the > root-2 floppy anyway. > > 3) No reasonable combination of choice of mirrors > (ftp.us.debian.org vs debian.uchicago.edu) and distributions > (testing vs unstable) give me anything but "no disks found". > > 4) For what it's worth, at least one combination of mirror and > distro (I don't remember exactly which -- I *think* it was uchicago > and testing) complained about not being able to find any driver > modules (presumably) on the mirror. But the other combinations > didn't complain. (So maybe the uchicago unstable distro does have > driver modules for the 2.4.27 kernel, but their testing > doesn't... Does that make sense? Is there any way to check this?) > > 5) Two of the 2.6 floppy images are still too large to fit on a > physical 1.44 MB disk.
Sorry, i haven't had time to work on this recently. On the other hand, Jens managed to boot the 2.6 kernel in miboot, and i normally adapted things to it, let's see how the builds go today. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
