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Re: sparc woody rescue.bin > 1440k



On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:59:38PM -0700, 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

No, it's just too big. You'll need to use tftp boot, or wait for me to
create a small cd image.

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