On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:37:19AM +0200, Michael Daum wrote: > On Monday 28 April 2003 15:41, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:08:07PM +0200, Michael Daum wrote: > > > Everything is fine besides the floppy not being detected. > > > > Even if you got it detected, it wouldn't work well. Will likely cause > > the machine to crash or lockup. > > > > Floppy has never been supported very well on ultrasparc-linux in general > > It's not a Debian issue. > > Oh that's _very_ bad news! as I wanted to convert half a dozent Sun Blade 100 > from Sun Solaris to Debian Linux. > > Wadding thru the debian-sparc archive I find lots of complains about the > Blades not booting from floppy. Actually that is not my problem. It is already > installed and up and running. It makes a nice desktop machine. Alas the > floppy is not working... So even you said that ultralinux made a nice > desktop for years for you. Didn't you miss a floppy too?
I don't even have floppies at my house. Haven't actually touched one in years. I didn't even notice that my Blade100 had a floppy drive to be honest. You actually have users still clinging to 1.44meg floppies? What the heck do they put on those things, 22 photos from their digital camera? :) > Bottom line: no floppy on ultralinux, no conversion :( For god sakes, man. Force these people into the 21st century. We have LAN's and email for file swapping. I can't think of one good reason to have floppies. Use CDR's instead if you need storage. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
