On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > ok... > At he MIT Flea Market I puyrchased another Sun Station this month. > I got me an IPC this time. It seems faster but... > I still can't get Linux on it :( > I came in to see a guy I know with some SUN stations at work > yesterday, nd we made up boot floppies... > My machines refuse to boot (both my IPC and the Sparc 1) > I put my hard drive in HIS sparc 1 (same model as mine) and > type boot floppy...(both my machines refuse to do this) > I see a SILO prompt but...it wont boot. It complains about > a missing lilo.conf and not being able to read block 6. > I am going to try the tftpboot.img when I can...but boot floppies would > be much more convinent.
Why are boot floppies more convenient? What are you planning to use this thing for? Presumably it'll be on a network. Anyhow, if it fails the floppy self-test, you've probably got a buggered drive. But there *do* seem to be problems with the boot-disks at the moment. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
