On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 04:50:43PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > 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.
Well it WILL eventually be on my network... the problem is right now it is not a machine I iwll use often because well... I have no room for it :( There is no desk space left on my desk...and many of the people I live with are um well...oposed to many other places I would like to put some computers (would you believe the first thing they told me was "No computers in the bathroom, or the kitchen") sheesh....what great ideas they gave me :) > 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. great :) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
