Perhaps you all should have read my post more fully. It is NOT an old kernel, it is 2.2.18pre21 and I tested an install. It works fine for 2.2.r2 Debian as I said. It SHOULD be used unless you are posting yours for 2.2r2. Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:51:29AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > For people who care about powerpc stuff.... > > > > While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only > > ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to > > Of course, I've built them eight times in the past two days... You > -could- just have asked on the list. I didn't upload them because I > was in the middle of debugging...
As was I. Building and debugging, that is. > > build a boot floppy for oldworld apple powermacs that solves the > > dreaded no response from keyboard when prompting to insert root > > floppy problem. It seems to work for doing installs on the one > > this. > > > machine that I was able to test it on, an Apple 7200/75. It may > > spew out a few error messages at one or two places about missing > > symbols, can't load modules. This should be ignored, unless someone > > discovers a piece of hardware that isn't supported during the > > install phase, in which case I'll fix it. It should be fine, > > though. This works for the 2.2r2 Debian release for powerpc > > It SHOULD NOT BE USED. You're avoiding a problem by using an old > kernel where the problem didn't occur; I've fixed the problem. The new > floppies will probably be on mirrors by tomorrow. You'll hit a lot of > random issues by the fact that you're not using the kernel that the > floppies were built with. > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:49:50PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > his image is just the old 2.2.16 boot floppy since the potato r2 boot > > > floppies are broken. drow is trying to fix that in the r3 boot > > > floppies. You should have read the whole post. It clearly says otherwise. > > ARGS. Is he "trying to fix this" or did he "actually fix this"? > > > > Drow, it would be a good time to appear now... :) > > Fixed. I just booted the same floppies I put in Incoming half an hour > ago and got a good way into an install.
