thank you for that tip, I never knew how to format a floppy on a sparc.... I pretty much had to find the man on my own..... now that I will be able to format the floppies, I can ftp the files to my other computer and then to my sparc and put them on the floppy... I know this sounds like more work, but its the only way I know of...
I read these messages on here and see the names, slink, potato and hamm I wonder which is the one I should be going with... hey, I am so new to this its not funny... so as I have figured out is I get the bootdisk and put on floppy, should get me started...thats what I understand...am I right then I can download the other needed files after that... I'm sure I'll be asking more questions in due time...but any help to me is valuble... Harold Adam Di Carlo wrote: > >>>>> "Harold" == Harold Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harold> I am a new user with a sparc 1+ and have 1 floppy drive and 2 > Harold> hard drives.... I am currently runnning unix solaris 1 ver > Harold> 4.1.3 on it now... I want to put linux on it.... > > Harold> I guess I need to find out more about the whole process and > Harold> have been reading up all I can on it... I read about the > Harold> bootfloppies and I have no idea about formating a floppy on > Harold> the sparc to get the files for sparc... > > Are you saying that you've read the newest installation manual > (<URL:http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/> and that you find the > instructions for creating floppies in solaris inadequate? > > Try 'man fdformant'... > > -- > .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
