On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:40:37PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Malte, > > > > > > > Rick, does this mean that the daily build floppies work for you now ? > > > > Friendly, > > > > Sven Luther > > > Yes. It reads all the floppies and launches d-i as expected. > > I still have problems with d-i once it gets launched. Specifically: > > Booting off of floppy, there is no way to invoke "...PRIORITY=medium" > mode. It just does the default. > > In default PRIORITY mode it always does: > > the dhcp thing -- which succeeds, but it give me a random IP address -- > I need to be able to specify the IP address manually. I think some > other folks have noted this and filed a bug report. > > it always tries to install yaboot (even though archdetect says it's an > oldworld machine. I think something's broken in the yaboot installer) > I've filed a bug report. > > > In summary, there are still problems with d-i on oldworld machines, but > the floppy boot stuff works just fine.
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