Re: More install problems under Ultra10 and tftp...
jeffh@premier1.net writes:
> Thanks for the previous tip on mkswap. Now for the latest bloody
> forehead story...
>
> I get to the point where it asks for a kernel (where you would reinsert
> the rescue floppy) and I can't find the right files in the tftp image.
> "Okay," I tell myself, "just make a disk and do it that way." Well the
> disk comes back as "Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/fd0" I try to do a "boot floppy" from OpenBoot and get "bad magic
> number in disk label." "Joy..." I think. I try new downloads of the
> image on new diskettes. No love from the boot prompt or mount. I go
> over to the Ultra2 running Slowaris, ("Yeah, it's slow," I think, "but
> at least it installs." I then slap myself for such jaded thinking.) run
> fdformat to lay down a disk label and ufs filesystem, take it to the IBM
> Intel box running SuSE and use mke2fs to lay down a readable filesystem,
> mount the filesystem and touch a file. I put it in the U10's floppy
> drive and... No luck. Now I am truly stumped. Please tell me I missed
> some niggling detail on the install an it is in the tftp image after
> all. Please?
The tftp image is for network booting. You can't boot from a floppy
on an Ultra10.
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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