On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 05:15:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter writes: > > 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 have been able to boot my Sun IPC from the boot floppies of debian. > Jute type boot floppy at the ok prompt, with the disk resc1440.bin on > the drive. After the floppy is loaded, it is ejected and I am asked to > put in the root disk (root.bin). Then it brings up the instllation > menu from which I can install debian from a NFS mounted partition (of > another NFS server)
ahh cool...wish it worked for me > > I am wondering if maybe I need new floppy drives? I try on my sparc 1 > > boot fd() (BTW its ROM version is like 1.0) > > that gives me an error...in fact test-floppy also fails but eject works > fine > > > > sigh...im going to try some more things when I get a chance...im > > just sorta wondering if the boot floppy imigas are screwed? > > How do you create the floppies. I just ftp the files resc1440.bin and > root.bin to a PC running DOS (note: some site gzip the file so you > have to gunzip them) then I write them to floppies with the rawrite > program. You can't use dd on a Sun (Solaris) machine because of the > volume mamager daemon. first I got onto a SUN system and issued fdformat -U floppy Then...I took the floppy and placed it in an i386 linux machine. I then typed dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 I also tried cp resc1440.bin /dev/fd0 (always worked for me in the past) both had the same result -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]
