Re: Booting from CDROM on sparc classic
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:44:22AM +0200, Wolfgang Hottgenroth wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm new to the issue "Linux on sparc", since in my job we only run Solaris
> on our computers. (Although I'm somewhat familiar to installing Linux on
> PCs.)
>
> But now I became the owner of an old, retired SPARCclassic and like to
> install Linux on it. I got the CDROMs (2.2_rev0/sparc) from the Internet and
> boot from the first one, using the SCSI option.
The bootable on the rev0 SPARC iso's are broken. Use the rev0_cdv1 SPARC
iso's (cdimage.debian.org) is you want to boot from CD.
Otherwise, you can read the install manual for instructions on how to boot
using other methods (net, floppy, etc..).
Ben
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