Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jukka Neppius wrote: > > Is there any reason to test these? I haven't succeeded with boot > > floppies since December. > > You're guaranteed to fail right now with them unless you tell the > installer to install unstable. Same as netboot.
First I tried to install testing with floppies from Debian/dists/testing/... Failure.. Then I tried to install testing with daily boot-floppies. Failed. After that I have tried to install unstable with different daily images from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/ I have failed at least 5 times (perhaps 10, I have not counted). Has anyone succeeded with boot floppies? In December I installed testing with floppies, but now it seems impossible. > I test them from time to time in vmware. Have not booted a physical > floppy since November, thank god. That is not so terrible, since only two floppies are needed. I have installed Slackware from floppies only. Only few years ago I had to install old SYSV Unix from floppies. Latest test: 2004-02-25/build_floppy_root.log: mcopy -i./tmp/floppy/root/root.img ./tmp/floppy/root/initrd.gz ::initrd.gz Disk full make[2]: *** [arch_root] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_build] Error 2 make: *** [build_floppy_root] Error 2 Looks so bad that I didn't try these. ------------------------------------------------------------ 2004-02-24/build_floppy_root.log: at ./tmp/floppy/root/all.utf | LOCPATH=./tmp/floppy/root/tree/usr/lib/locale LC _ALL=C.UTF-8 reduce-font /usr/src/unifont.bdf > ./tmp/floppy/root/unifont.bdf setlocale: C.UTF-8 FYI: MB_CUR_MAX/MB_LEN_MAX: 6/16 error -1 at position 579622 (bytes: 16 Used chars: 1612 (579622 processed) make[3]: *** [tmp/floppy/root/tree/unifont.bgf] Error 1 make[2]: *** [tmp/floppy/root/initrd.gz] Error 2 make[1]: *** [_build] Error 2 make: *** [build_floppy_root] Error 2 Not much better... ------------------------------------------------------------ 2004-02-23 Log files look OK!!! I haven't seen this since 2004-02-11 (I haven't checked every day) BUT: The specified Debian archive mirror is either not available, or does not have a valid Release file on it. Please try a different mirror Perhaps this is too old... ------------------------------------------------------------ I tried also sid-20040209 /var/log/messages: tar: Unrecognised file type I think this is known and solved bug. ------------------------------------------------------------ http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/2004-02-26/build_floppy_root.log mcopy -i./tmp/floppy/root/root.img ./tmp/floppy/root/initrd.gz ::initrd.gz Disk full make[2]: *** [arch_root] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_build] Error 2 make: *** [build_floppy_root] Error 2 Nothing to test today... - Jukka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
