Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:19:48PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > But then it shouldn't offer to do it. It even offers slink, haven't tried > that. ;) its probably only there as an experiment, just to see what would happen. nobody cares about potato much less slink at this point (except the secur

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:49:39AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > I've tried the boot-floppies on my girlfriend's Cube without much luck. > > debootstrap failed due to problems with perl and groff for woody and > > unstable. When I finally tried stable, chroot said no such

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:49:39AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > Do they have an airport driver? I'd love to test them but it's gonna be a > > > pain without. > > > > if kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > Do they have an airport driver? I'd love to test them but it's gonna be a > > pain without. > > if kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac does then boot-floppies do, if not then > not. boot-floppies don't provide dri

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Do they have an airport driver? I'd love to test them but it's gonna be a pain > without. if kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac does then boot-floppies do, if not then not. boot-floppies don't provide drivers, kernel-image does. > > Tha

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > i will answer one FAQ even experienced users are asking: Where is the > Base tarball? > > Answer: there isn't one, its gone, obsolete. we now install the base > system from real .debs using a new utility called `debootstrap' (not > to be confused with dbootstrap). This m

boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-12 Thread Ethan Benson
Hello, boot-floppies 2.3.5 have just been uploaded to unstable. We need people to test this build as its really the first build of woody boot-floppies that claims to work on powerpc. First there is a common misconception that if you don't have a floppy drive you can't help, test, or use boot-