Re: sparc woody rescue.bin > 1440k
Woody is not released so there are no official CD images. It's
"testing" so it's possible there might be a bug. I think I heard
something about this on one of the other lists. But making a
bootable sparc CD is the same as any El Torito bootable CD, simply
download the potato CD image and burn it onto a CD. Eureka.
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Mark Montague wrote:
>
> Unless I'm doing something horribly wrong, the root.bin doesn't fit on
> a floppy. I just got a castoff sparc20, so I got
>
> ...debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/3.0.13-2001-08-28/images-1.44/root.bin
>
> and the narrow rescue.bin. The rescue disk boots the kernel without
> trouble, but I get
>
> (on an i386 debian machine)
> % sudo dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
> Password:
> dd: writing `/dev/fd0': No space left on device
> 1441+0 records in
> 1440+0 records out
>
> I assume that sun disks aren't a weird format, since the rescue disk
> worked. Am I just doing something stupid because I haven't tried
> debian-sparc before, or is this a bug (and what package should it be
> bug reported against, if it is?)
>
> I could burn a CD, but I have no idea how to make a sparc-bootable CD
> image, and there don't seem to be (?) any woody sparc images
> pre-made.
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