Re: Debian on an ULTRA 5
yeah that is what i have been told, so even when i bypass it, when the ultra
5 tries to boot from memory it gets the error
Cant boot from disk1:a
File found is not an executable
or something similar to that, does that help at all ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Anderson" <jkanders@alpha.delta.edu>
To: "Mario Zuppini" <tribune@cybersol.com.au>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 1:16 PM
Subject: 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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> 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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