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> > As I remembered, it was freezed at MAKEFLOPPIES or something. > > thats where it creates various floppy device nodes in /dev it probably > does some sort of probe to figure out what floppy hardware you have. > it very well could be pissing something off. Hmmm, I see. > > I wondered that this is because > > > > - fdutils is not usable on PowerPC at all, or > > its supposed to be useful in theory, in practice it appears to be > hopelessly broken, unfortunatly.. (at least aph mentioned miserable > failure of fdformat on irc). > > > - my kernel 2.4.4 lacked some necessary feature? (messages > > said something about kernel...), or > > well 2.4 is not known for stability, you should try this under 2.2 and > see what happens there too. I tried after rebooting with kernel 2.2.19 then it worked fine! I never imagined that kernel 2.4 was wrong in some point compared with 2.2 series. Thanks for your advice. Best Regards, 2001.6.4 -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
