Re: Trouble installing on an dual-168MHz Ultra2
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:47:32PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am attempting to do an ftp install using floppies. Currently the
> Ultra2 has Solaris installed; I am trying to install Debian 2.2 potato.
> However, none of the floppies that I obtained from
> ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/os/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/...
> will boot. rescue.bin gives me something like "SILInvalidInstruction"
> and the others are "Bad magic number". I followed the instructions
> given by README.txt in the directory above.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. :)
Did you use the sun4u disks? Don't use a floppy boot on Ultra's. They
tend not to work very well. Try tftp boot (using the tftp image in the
sun4u directory), or try a CD boot using the ISO images on
ftp://cdimage.debian.org/
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