Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-17 Thread Tovar
For people who care about powerpc stuff While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to build a boot floppy for oldworld apple powermacs that solves the dreaded no response from keyboard

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Sharp
For people who care about powerpc stuff While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to build a boot floppy for oldworld apple powermacs that solves the dreaded no response from keyboard when prompting to

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Andrew Sharp wrote: For people who care about powerpc stuff While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to build a boot floppy for oldworld apple powermacs that solves the dreaded no response from

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:04:59PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Andrew Sharp wrote: For people who care about powerpc stuff While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:51:29AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: For people who care about powerpc stuff While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to Of course, I've built them eight times in the past

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: his image is just the old 2.2.16 boot floppy since the potato r2 boot floppies are broken. drow is trying to fix that in the r3 boot floppies. ARGS. Is he "trying to fix this" or did he "actually fix this"? Drow, it would be a good time to appear

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Sharp
Perhaps you all should have read my post more fully. It is NOT an old kernel, it is 2.2.18pre21 and I tested an install. It works fine for 2.2.r2 Debian as I said. It SHOULD be used unless you are posting yours for 2.2r2. Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:51:29AM -0700,

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:24:25PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: Perhaps you all should have read my post more fully. It is NOT an old kernel, it is 2.2.18pre21 and I tested an install. It works ^^^ no where in your message did you say this, all you said is it worked

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:24:25PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: Perhaps you all should have read my post more fully. It is NOT an old kernel, it is 2.2.18pre21 and I tested an install. It works fine for 2.2.r2 Debian as I said. It SHOULD be used unless you are posting yours for 2.2r2.

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:29:26PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: boot-floppies build system works. ~:^) Contrary to popular myth, 2.2r2 can't be obsolete until r3 is released. It hasn't been released, has it? Believe it or not, I'm trying to help out here. It has been finalized. I believe

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Sharp
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:24:25PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: Perhaps you all should have read my post more fully. It is NOT an old kernel, it is 2.2.18pre21 and I tested an install. It works fine for 2.2.r2 Debian as I said. It SHOULD be used unless you are

new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
You can find 2.2.23 of i386 boot-floppies (already uploaded for Potato) at http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-14/ Please test these, especially if you have udma drive controller or a lot of IDE drives (such as hdh). Included is the change log.