> (Is it possible to dd the boot floppy onto a spare hard disc partition > then boot from there with appropriate arguments to SILO? This is the
It is a little trickier than that because you need *two* floppies. Check the debian-sparc archives for my comments on doing this with a zip disk, the approach would be the same with any scsi disk that works at all with the boot prom you're using (basically, dd the boot disk, dd skip=offset the ramdisk, then boot it and use the "linux sd(...)[offset...]" syntax.) I'd give more details here but I'm at the IETF now which means I have fast access to the rest of the net, but I'm on the wrong side of the 28.8 link to thok.org :-)
