Re: Booting Debian from floppies on UltraSparc.
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Chris Brandstetter wrote:
> > 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
>
> I managed to install Debian potato from floppies on my Ultra 1 with no
> problems. Slink's boot floppies didn't work though, while the contemporaneous
> Redhat floppies did.
Then RedHat is using something that I don't have available, or am not
aware of. These floppies are created with a Sun disk label, and made
bootable using silo (which supports floppy boots, AFAIK).
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