Well. The IPC has this great little slit on the front of it which some people like to stick disks in. I have found, you can attatch a Vacume Cleaner Hose to it, and it goes great sucking the crap off my floor.
The bottumn line is, the IPC is sealed up so well, it's main intake is the damn floppy drive. All sorts of dust and crap gets in and shits everything. I had trouble with boot disks, and flagged it streight away, and found TFTP from my Slak 3.3 box was easy. The insructions DONT mention the ARP step only the RARP step, Both must be done, otherwise it wont boot. If you follow the instructions to the letter, other than that, it works VERY well. >From there, I tried to make a floppy, and boot from it, just to test the drive. Sure enuf, the drive is stuffed. This is the case on 3 out of 4 SparcIPC's I have. So... my advise is... get some compressed Oxygen Free Nitrogen, and blast the sucker, then run a cleaning disk thru it. On all three of the faulty systems, the drives are now all working perfectly. I highly recommend obtaining a tranceiver and some 10Base2 or 10BaseT cable, and Net Booting. These systems are designed for it... and are reliable. It's simple... you you can't TFTP to a SunIPC, you are doing it wrong, or it's hardware failure. 98% of the time it's user error. RTFM Everyone, and it will all work out. My systems are Proof of that. If anyone out there is having problems NetBooting or setting up a SunIPC feel free to E-Mail me or catch me on the IRC ( irc.debian.org #debian ) -----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Carpenter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 2:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Sparcy gets a brother 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. 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? -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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
