cdrom boot reading problem
Thank you much for your detailed answer, Tim!
The more I tried, I think I do have a hardware problem.
When I'm in the stop-a -> ok prompt, I used boot cd and it goes fetches
inside the cdrom and it complains about:
bad magic number in disk label
can't open disk label package
can't open boot device
I called the disk zoot-sparc.iso , do I need to use all numbers to label
the disk instead?
Don't know if you have the answer to that.
When I used probe-scsi-all it gives the hard drives targets 0 and 3 as DEC
and Seagate and then target 6 being the portable
cd device it recognized as SONY.
Rgds,
Victor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Ellis" <Tim.Ellis@gamet.com>
To: "victor" <vshum12@pacbell.net>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: where can I download linux for sparc?
> > BTW I downloaded redhat zoot-sparc.iso and my sparc10 cdrom cannot read
> > it, said scsi device 6,0 is not responding. I guess may be it is not
> > compatible.
>
> Make sure your SPARC can boot from the CDROM before going any further. Be
> positive you don't have a hardware problem, or you'll just be frustrated
> for a long time.
>
> Once all that's sorted, look up "jigdo" and go from there.
> http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd
>
> A piece of advice about jigdo: ALWAYS choose an HTTP site, NEVER choose an
> FTP site. I and at least one other person have bad experiences with wget
> trying to get things from FTP sites. I could not get my Debian SPARC ISOs
> built until I figured out this little idiosyncracy.
>
> If you truly want to download an ISO, I think you have to settle for 2.x
> (Potato?). Those are the only true ISOs I could find. All 3.x (Woody) was
> in jigdo format, which appears to be The Way Of The Future.
>
> Notice here:
> http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/current/jigdo
>
> There's a "sparc" directory at the very bottom.
>
> All this I found from debian.org following what I figured were obvious
> links.
>
> Enjoy,
> --
> Tim Ellis
> Senior Database Architect
> Gamet, Inc.
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