Re: Debian on an ULTRA 5
To my knowledge booting of a floppy is not supported in the 'Ultra' series
of Sparc computers. So, probably you have to bypass that option.
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John Kerr Anderson
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Mario Zuppini wrote:
> People's,
>
> Spanky new ultra sparc 5 sitting next to me, and trying to install
> debian on it, it wont let me create boot disk during the installation
> process, when it asks to enter a floppy to create, i do which results
> in the immediate message of
> "your disk is either write protected or not inserted in the first
> floppy drive, please insert in first floppy"
>
> there is only one floppy drive in there, and the disk isnt write
> protected, this happens upon any disk i use.
>
> If however i select the option to bypass and reboot the system to
> continue installation, it reboots and is looking for the floppy and
> wont boot off the harddisk ?
>
> Has anyone had any similar or know how to fix my troubles that I have
> had trying to install debian on the ultra 5 sparc ??
>
> Helpppppppppp
>
>
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