Re: Creating installation disks
* Per J?nsson <pt98pjo@student.hk-r.se> [010213 17:05]:
> I'm having big trouble creating the installation disks for installing
> Debian on an Ultra-10 sparc machine. I have fetched the binaries
> (sun4u) from a ftp mirror, but don't know how to create valid boot
> disks. Each time I try to boot the rescue disk I get "Bad magic number in
> disk label".. I use dd to write the image to the disk, but that isn't
> sufficient. I've tried fdformat, format and rmformat to create a magic
> number on the disk, as well as fdisk for creating a partition.
Most UltraSPARC machines have a PROM bug that prevents floppy booting.
Please boot via cdrom of rarp/tftp.
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