Booting Debian from floppies on UltraSparc.
I am trying to install the current frozen distribution, but I wouldn't
mind even older one (assuming dselect and apt-get would work after
that). Just to start. I am downloading ISO images right now, but
tomorrow morning PDT, I would like to start installation. If I could
make it from floppies, I would be happier, though. I know that Red Hat
is bootable there, but it was from a CD (that's why am I downloading ISO
images - I wouldn't otherwise).
When I press Stop-A and after I get ok prompt, I can test floppy
which shows it's there and successfuly readable. "boot floppy" doesn't
work, though. The error message says "Can't open disk label package" and
something about "bad magic number".
I tried to find help on
http://www.debian.org/releases/frozen/sparc/install.en.txt, but that
document isn't very useful.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Peter.
P.S.: I even tried today version of bootfloppies.
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