Bug#35847: Base disks
You originally said:
> When I generate base disks from base14-x.bin files using different
> versions of rawrite (1.2, 1.3) the system won't boot. I've tried using
> the same floppy disks and the same rawrite versions with other
> debian/rad hat/linux distributions and they worked. I could install but,
> because I WANT to install debian, I'll wait for corrections instead of
> installing some commercial distribution.
I think I have found your problem. You should be writing the
resc1440.bin and the drv1440.bin disk images to floppy. The base
floppies are not for booting.
See
<URL:http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-file-descs>.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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