Re: Booting Debian from floppies on UltraSparc.
Last I knew, when I tried to install the first time on my Ultra 1 about 6 mos
ago, and from what I have heard,
you cannot install from a floppy. There is a problem booting Ultra machines off
of a floppy. I would recomend waiting for the ISO's and doing it that way. It
is a much easier way than the alternatives I know of (tftpboot :( ) Chris B
PeHaSys@SoftHome.Net wrote:
> 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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