On Fri, 21 May 1999, Xela Wren wrote: > guess the question I was asking was more of a trouble shooting one. I have > a used SPARC Station 1+ with an external SCSI NEC 3x used CD-ROM drive, no > floppy, and no bootable OS on the 200MB internal drive. I am trying to > figure out how to get ANY OS on the thing and I can't get access to ethernet > or any other LAN. Soooo... The RedHat CD said it could boot from the boot > PROM. I would rather install Debian, but at the moment RedHat 5.2 was what I > had. > > So the question is, does the error message "bad magic number" mean the CD is > probably bad and I should just get another, or might it be that the drive or > Goddess forbid the SPARC is bad? Any ideas. Thank you so much. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > the error msg also comes up if the cd rom is not a " sun bootable" cd-rom, has wrong block sizes has 1024 Vs. 512 (or visa versa).
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