RE: Sparc VOYAGER and Debian LINUX

[Mike Lewis <MikeL@InletCorp.com>]

See I TOLD you I was a newbie ;-)

I'm using Potato 2.2.16-2000-07-02 / Sun4DM-PCI for ALL the files
I create the diskettes on my WinNT workstation (probably my 1st mistake)....

The WinNT machine is the only box I have connected to the Internet right
now. Since the Voyager was an old Gov't machine-I don't have ROOT login or
password and I can't log in to the local SunOS.  That's why I want to wipe
and load....

I'll attempt to do the Network Install.

Thanks to all for your assistance!

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins [mailto:bcollins@debian.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:21 AM
To: Mike Lewis
Cc: Debian-Sparc List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Sparc VOYAGER and Debian LINUX


On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:06:26AM -0400, Mike Lewis wrote:
> I recently acquired a Sparcstation VOYAGER through a gov't auction.  I
would
> like to load DEBIAN Linux to the machine, but have run into the following
> issue (forgive the Newbie...).
> 
> When attempting to load from diskette (I didn't get a CD-ROM drive with
the
> unit), I am unable to load the ROOT diskette.  The Rescue diskette boots,
> but when I attempt to load the ROOT filesystem diskette, I get an error
> message:
> 
> I/O error, Dev 02:00 (floppy), Sector 0
> 
> I have attempted to recreate the ROOT diskette several times.  Can anyone
> tell me the PROPER way to generate the ROOT filesytem on diskette?

I'm not familiar with the VOYAGER system. Is that a sun4d? Anyway, you
need to specify what version of Debian you are trying to install
(slink/potato?) and the version of boot-floppy images you are using
aswell. As for the proper way to write the diskettes, insert a floppy and
do:

dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0

IOW, if you wrote the rescue.bin properly, chances are you wrote the
root.bin properly aswell. If all else fails, read the Debian/SPARC install
docs on setting up a network boot install.

Ben

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