On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:57:27AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 04:45 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >Ok, try out : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.6-2004.09.01 > > > >I have checked the ofonlyboot, boot and root floppies. > > I tried this -- the usual 30 seconds or so of floppy noises > followed by "Red X" for both the boot and ofonlyboot floppies.
Oh, well. > also > http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.4-2004.08.31 > same result - 30 seconds or so or floppy reading then "Red X" for > both the boot and ofonlyboot floppies. > > > I'm going to test the "daily" 2.4 floppies at > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d- > i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ > then go to bed. > > ... pause while I go into the other room to try things out ... > > Wonder of wonders! It boots and reads the "root" and two drivers > floppies! It got as far as finding the network interface card and > the CD-rom drive and reading the d-i udebs from the CD. It even > tried to run the partitioner, but there it failed to find my hard > disk. Cool. Now, 2.6 is still broken, and we may need to fix miboot to make it work. This probably means someone with non-X MacOS, as well as some obsolet version of codewarrior, probably a post-sarge thing anyway. We need to investigate what your ide/scsi controller is, and if it is available on the floppies. > Oh well -- too much success in one day is bad for your karma... (<-8) Hehe. > We'll work on why it didn't find my hard disk another day. It's > almost 4 AM and I'm going to bed! Good night then. > Here's where I got the successful boot floppy from: > > > >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 01-Sep-2004 21:26 1.1M > > boot.img 01-Sep-2004 21:27 1.4M > > cd-drivers.img 01-Sep-2004 21:27 1.4M > > net-drivers.img 01-Sep-2004 21:27 1.4M > > ofonlyboot.img 01-Sep-2004 21:27 1.4M > > root.img 01-Sep-2004 21:28 1.2M > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Apache/1.3.26 Server at people.debian.org Port 80 Yep, these are the ones. Friendly, Sven Luther
