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Re: Floppy based install of Debian-Sparc



>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

  >>  I tried this yesterday, but with no luck :-/ I used the
  >> tftpboot.img from boot-floppies 2.2.12 on my SPARC IPC. When the
  >> installation process need to download the drivers.tgz it fails. On
  >> the Debian site there is no such file, but a driver-1.bin.

  Ben> Nasty...I wonder what went wrong with that last set of
  Ben> boot-floppies :/

  Ben> Anyway, you can download the rescue.bin and driver-1.bin, write
  Ben> those to a floppy, and the rest can be done via the internet (or
  Ben> local NFS if you wish to download base2.2.tgz aswell).

Thats my problem, I do not have a floppy drive in my IPC... Damn, I
guess I have to wait then... But thats okey, I suppose it will work when
potato gets stable (and that is in the near future).

Thanks for your help anyway,


M@ds
-- 
% csh
% blow
blow: No such job


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