On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:54PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 15 August 2005 21:02, Sven Luther wrote: > > As a result, the floppies present in sarge are entirely broken and will > > never work. Also the 2.6 floppies, even with miboot present never > > worked fiably, annd since we are doing away with the 2.4 kernels for > > etch, this means that the miboot floppy target is going away then. > > Is the status for the images at > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/floppy/ > and > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ > both the same? Are both broken? >
Sure, none is built with miboot. > Should we mention this in the errata on > http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/index#errata > for the Sarge images? Yes, please. Also the install/pegasos file on sarge images seems to be empty, i wonder how this happened, and just discovered this today. Probably a debian-cd bug. > Or should we try to get them removed / add a README in the those > directories? Not sure. We could free the miboot stuff and fix them ? > Should maybe something be added on the powerpc port pages about this > issue? Sure, please go ahead. > > Does this also mean that the line for > powerpc - oldworld - floppy-2.4 > on > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status > should also be listed as "broken" and in red? Well, the daily builds use miboot, and should work. Well, they used to at least. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
