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Re: Bootable Woody Sparc CD's??




The CD's are bootable on both Sparc 5's and 20's. :) Thanks for all the
work on these.  It's too bad they don't have Pine, though :)


On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:

> > 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.
>
> After talking with Ben and with Raphael, I have fixed a couple of things
> that are peculiar on the sparc arch and that I didn't know of.
>
> Now the sparc cds are built using the old mkhybrid instead of mkisofs, as
> Ben has told me that mkisofs is still not compatible with SILO while
> mkhybrid is. If someone wants to add this feature to mkisofs... feel free to
> do it.
>
> Elflord: you can refresh the image you have downloaded using rsync over the
> old image if you still have it, or if you had deleted it, well, you can make
> a new one from the cd you have and then rsync it to the new one and record
> it again, I sugest you use cdrw if the machine supports those, just in case
> there are more bugs (this things are totally unstable ;-)
>
> Hope this time they are ok.
>
> Regards...
> --
> Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
>
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