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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