Re: Booting from CDROM on sparc classic

["Wolfgang Hottgenroth" <who_sp@hottis.de>]

Thanks. I already managed it in the meantime using a bootp server ...

Wolfgang



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Collins" <bcollins@debian.org>
To: "Wolfgang Hottgenroth" <who_sp@hottis.de>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 3:04 PM
Subject: 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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