Re: Bootable Woody Sparc CD's??
It's a Sparc 5 170mhz with 64 megs of RAM running potato. I'm doing a
'boot cdrom' from the PROM ok prompt and the message I get is 'file is not
bootable'. This is after it accesses the CD.
-Jay
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > The CD's in fact do not boot.
>
> Is there any message or something?
>
> The boot from sparc has been adapted from that on potato, as there weren't
> many changes, maybe someone can point the problem if you can tell us the
> messages you get on booting.
>
> > Any ideas on how I should go about installing these? I don't have the
> > equipment to netboot, nor a floppy drive, however I already have Potato
> > running on the machine.
>
> well, you can use the burned cds to do a dist-upgrade after doing an
> apt-cdrom add and all that, but I'd really like this thing to help us get
> this booting problem solved, if you could provide info on the machine and
> the way you are booting it... I'm not good at sparc, but there are some
> people around that may help us.
>
> Regards...
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> Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
>
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