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>On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
>Why are boot floppies more convenient? What are you planning to use
this
>thing for? Presumably it'll be on a network.
Pretty big presumption. At least in MY case, floppies would have
been more convienent, since I didn't have any other machine on my
network capable of serving RARP/tftp. Now that I've upgraded one of my
other machines, I can actually netboot my Sparc IPX. Of course, there
are OTHER problems at the moment...
I had planned to use the IPX as my main machine (terminal, minor
compiling, etc) and use my old 386 as a diskless router, netbooting off
of the Sparc...now I've ended up turning the 386 into a Pentium so I
could get onto the net...
>Anyhow, if it fails the floppy self-test, you've probably got a
buggered
>drive. But there *do* seem to be problems with the boot-disks at the
>moment.
I've had the same problem with floppies with my IPX. The CPU card
of my IPX fails self-test (but it aparently has for years, and has run
RedHat for quite some time). However, the bootdisks fail shortly after
lilo start, with an error on block 50, no matter how many disks I try.
The netboot blows up due to an esp driver bug, which can aparently
be worked around by compiling esp.o with gcc instead of egcs. Anyone
willing to help, and make us a new tftpboot.img?
Are there any good sources of sparc-specific debian documentation
anywhere? I can hardly find references to sparc hardware on the web
pages, other then the fact that Kachina is supposed to be helping out.
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