Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2001-01-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:05:28AM -0800, rick wrote: > > Note that this is only a workaround. The real fix is to have the > "dbootstrap" program > accept a platform-specific qualifier (e.g, the "-sun4cdm") in the floppy > series name. > This qualifier would have to come from a command-line argu

Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2001-01-03 Thread rick
If you're using a 1.4MB floppy drive, then the dbootstrap program wants to read the drivers from the "drv14" driver series. Unfortunately, the floppy images available for download were created as "drv14-sun4cdm". You can work around this by downloading the "floppy_split.c" and "floppy_split.h

Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2000-12-10 Thread Nick Holgate
> I'm fairly certain this is not a sparc issue, or atleast that it has > nothing to do with anything I changed. For the latest set, I just used a > newer kernel, and the latest boot-floppies source. This is an extract from a message posted to debian-68k on Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:58:45 GMT I'm att

Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2000-12-08 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam, could this have to do with the fact that sparc only has one driver > image, and not multiple? No, I repeat, no. Both the compact and idepci flavors work and have only one driver disk. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2000-12-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:57:40PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You said the message was: > > > > > > > > > > Wrong disk! > > > > > This is disk 1 of 2 in the drv14-sun4cdm series of 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST. > > > > > Wrong disk. This is from

Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2000-12-08 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You said the message was: > > > > > > > Wrong disk! > > > > This is disk 1 of 2 in the drv14-sun4cdm series of 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST. > > > > Wrong disk. This is from series drv14-sun4cdm. You need disk 1 of series > > > > the driver series. > > How

Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2000-12-07 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm fairly certain this is not a sparc issue, or atleast that it has > > nothing to do with anything I changed. For the latest set, I just used a > > newer kernel, and the latest boot-floppies source. >

Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2000-12-07 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > - s n i p - > > Wrong disk! > > This is disk 1 of 2 in the drv14-sun4cdm series of 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST. > > Wrong disk. This is from series drv14-sun4cdm. You need disk 1 of series > > the driver series. > > - s n i p - > > > > The m

Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2000-12-07 Thread Ben Collins
> - s n i p - > Wrong disk! > This is disk 1 of 2 in the drv14-sun4cdm series of 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST. > Wrong disk. This is from series drv14-sun4cdm. You need disk 1 of series > the driver series. > - s n i p - > > The machine is a SPARC station 1+ (a sun4c arch). I'm fairly c

Bug#79004: [SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

2000-12-07 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.20-2000-12-03 When trying to install the 'Kernel and modules', the kernel is installed from the (booted) rescue disk, but when asked to insert the modules disk 1, I get the message enclosed below. The disks are the correct ones, down loaded from ftp