It's a Sparc 5 170mhz with 64 megs of RAM running potato. I'm doing a 'boot cdrom' from the PROM ok prompt and the message I get is 'file is not bootable'. This is after it accesses the CD.
-Jay On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > The CD's in fact do not boot. > > Is there any message or something? > > The boot from sparc has been adapted from that on potato, as there weren't > many changes, maybe someone can point the problem if you can tell us the > messages you get on booting. > > > Any ideas on how I should go about installing these? I don't have the > > equipment to netboot, nor a floppy drive, however I already have Potato > > running on the machine. > > well, you can use the burned cds to do a dist-upgrade after doing an > apt-cdrom add and all that, but I'd really like this thing to help us get > this booting problem solved, if you could provide info on the machine and > the way you are booting it... I'm not good at sparc, but there are some > people around that may help us. > > Regards... > -- > Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
