On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:21:18PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:48:40PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > Um, yeah, that must be what I meant. Actually, what I meant is > > > this: the docs constantly talk about booting the rescue floppy for > > > this that and the other. But the "rescue" floppy for the powerpc > > > port is an ext2 file system, and doesn't boot at all on old world > > > macs, and I just assumed that it must be for new world macs. If > > > not, then the rescue floppy image is a complete hoax for powerpc. > > > > the rescue floppy has only one purpose on powerpc, and that is to > > provide the kernel image that is installed in the `install OS and > > kernel modules' step. the bootable rescue floppy for oldworld macs is > > the hfs-boot.img (or whatever its called). > > I've never needed rescue.bin for that. Granted I've only done two > installs. ~:^) But there are two images called driver-1.bin and > driver-2.bin which one might guess have drivers on them. Never used > those either.
You've probably done either network or CD installs. They both use rescue.bin; they don't require it be on a floppy, that's all. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
