Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2006-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:28:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 01 March 2006 22:06, you wrote: Sorry being so slow, I'll try to test new images again asap. I'm afraid I've reverted the change I made because of comments in this thread:

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2006-03-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 22:06, you wrote: Sorry being so slow, I'll try to test new images again asap. I'm afraid I've reverted the change I made because of comments in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/02/msg01007.html It looks from that that my diagnosis was at least

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2006-03-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry being so slow, I'll try to test new images again asap. Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 12 February 2006 04:03, Frans Pop wrote: It looks very much as if the following udeb is just missing from the root floppy:

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 12 February 2006 04:03, Frans Pop wrote: It looks very much as if the following udeb is just missing from the root floppy: floppy-modules-2.6.15-1-powerpc-miboot-di I've added that udeb. Let's hope that it does not make the size of the root floppy too big again. Could you please

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2006-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
clone 345467 -1 -2 reassign -1 mountfloppy retitle -1 Should not ask device question if no candidate devices found reassign -2 debian-installer retitle -2 Does not generate modules.dep if no modules included on root floppy thanks VT4: /dev/disc: No such file or directory mount: Mounting 10 on

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2006-02-08 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:02, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: It seems to be solved, but I can't load the floppy with the drivers :'( Which one: cd-drivers or net-drivers? Size of both seems OK. Size does not matter ;-) Why not?

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2006-02-07 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, It seems to be solved, but I can't load the floppy with the drivers :'( Do I file another bug report? Do we change the title of this one? If there is another bug report about the driver floppy, we can close this one IMHO. Cheers and thanks

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2006-02-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:02, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: It seems to be solved, but I can't load the floppy with the drivers :'( Which one: cd-drivers or net-drivers? Size of both seems OK. Why not? Any useful messages in dmesg or on VT4 (or in the syslog)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2005-12-31 Thread Rogério Brito
Package: debian-installer Severity: important I intend to (re)install Debian onto a PowerPC OldWorld machine and, essentially, the only option that I have here is to use floppies. I was talking with Sven Luther on debian-powerpc and he recommended me to use the daily builds of debian-installer,

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2005-12-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:28:00PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: important I intend to (re)install Debian onto a PowerPC OldWorld machine and, essentially, the only option that I have here is to use floppies. I was talking with Sven Luther on

Bug#345467: debian-installer: powerpc root disk-image is too big to fit onto a floppy

2005-12-31 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 31 2005, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:28:00PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: I'd really love to have d-i working on ow ppc's. Sarge's 2.4 floppies should work. I have tried them once and the system simply spit out the (boot) floppy. The woody floppies work, though (and