My experience with the April 2020 Alpha iso
Booted fine, asked for me to load qlogic/1040.bin on removable media.
I downloaded the deb file for buster, exploded it and copied all the
bin files onto both a floppy and a USB stick. The AlphaServer 1200 has
a USB card in a PCI slot.
Put both the USB
>
> Interesting. I've just checked on my running XP1000 and I see there
> is no /dev/fd0 either. I'm running a self-compiled 5.6.3 kernel and
> the floppy module is built. Modprobing it loaded it and then I have
> a /dev/fd0 device node. What's more it works --- I managed to list
> the
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:37:14AM +1000, Darren Goossens wrote:
> My experience with the April 2020 Alpha iso
>
> Booted fine, asked for me to load qlogic/1040.bin on removable media.
> I downloaded the deb file for buster, exploded it and copied all the
> bin files onto both a floppy and a USB
On 4/21/20 4:16 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
> So is the floppy module included in the install ISO, and, if so,
> can you run insmod on it to enable the floppy drive while
> installing?
That's an easy fix. I assume there used to be a floppy-modules package
that was removed. We can re-add that. Or just
On 4/20/20 10:28 AM, Darren Goossens wrote:
> That's great! Thanks again for all your troubles. A question: When I
> last tried an install on an Alpha, qlogic firmware for the storage was
> missing (eg SCSI disks, CD etc). Does the Alpha image have any new
> firmware compared to the previous
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:30 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I just uploaded updated installation images 2020-04-19 for the
> following Debian Ports architectures [1]:
>
> * alpha
> * hppa
> * ia64
> * m68k
> * powerpc
> * ppc64
> * sparc64
>
> These images should finally
Hi Darren!
On 4/20/20 10:53 AM, Darren Goossens wrote:
> I understand your comment about help being appreciated. I'm afraid I
> am an amateur, and my day job is nothing to do with software. I am
> happy to test things and see how they work and report back, but I am
> not a developer -- not even a
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 07:11:56PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 01:01:17AM +0200, Matthias Ferdinand wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 07:48:27AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > > > If the rules had changed, it should not succeed even without
> > > > O_CREAT. A bug?
> > >
> > >
>
> You can add the firmware files manually during installation with a
> floppy disk. The installer asks during installation if you want
> to provide additional firmware using removable media.
>
Thanks for that
The floppy disk controller did not work either, I recall clearly. I
tried a PCI USB
Hi Darren!
On 4/20/20 11:49 AM, Darren Goossens wrote:
> The floppy disk controller did not work either, I recall clearly. I
> tried a PCI USB card, IDE CD, SCSI CD and putting the files on a
> second HDD. None of the storage was visible to the Debian installer.
>
> If this might have changed, I
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