Re: New set of sparc boot disks
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> The new set of disks are at:
>
> ftp://marcus.debian.net/pub/debian/disks-sparc/current
These don't seem to like the 4c machines very well. On my IPX, with a
ROM version 2.3, the floppy images fail with a "Read error in block 73
Unknown /linux image format" message. I tried a couple of
different floppies, in case there were problems with the disks themselves,
and both the 4c and 4cdm rescue images gave the same message. Booting
over the network got a bit farther, but also failed at the "Booting
Linux..." message, after which nothing more happens.
I also tried netbooting my SS2 (with a terminal), and it stops at the same
place. The image from the 5/6 Jan seems to have booted OK, but failed at
finding the "base" via http (as was already reported by someone else.) I
couldn't try the floppies with it, since it has no floppy drive.
The same floppy and tftp images boot OK on an LX, although I didn't go
through the whole installation process, since I didn't want to wipe out my
NetBSD installation, but I'll find another disk to try it with. However,
the "reboot" doesn't seem to work either from the menu, or from the
command line. And "ping" complains about an "unknown protocol icmp".
And on the SS5, things went OK until it was time to install the base
system; the default address gives us a "404 not found" message, and trying
to fetch base2_2.tgz from kachinatech gave the same "http failed" message
as before. And no reboot or ping, either.
Sorry for the bad news. The new console font looks nice, though :-)
John Chapman hannes@eskimo.com hannes@pop.nwnexus.com
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