On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:07:10PM -0700, Jason Marshall wrote: > Hi all, first of all, let me apologize for asking this on the list when > I'm quite sure that the answer can be foundin the archives... > Unfortunately, the archives seem to be broken right now (the ones on > lists.debian.org, anyway). So, here I go anyway! > > I'm trying to tftp boot a sparc 2. I've got the image in place, and it > seems to download (tftp counter goes up to 2fbc00, TILO comes up, and then > "Booting Linux..."). However, at that point it locks up and doesn't seem > to be doing anything. I've tried it a few times, and left it for over an > hour once just in case it was busy unpacking something... > > Needless to say, I'd like any suggestions about what I'm doing wrong. Is > this installation method not supported for potato yet? Is my machine > buggered? I need to be able to tftpboot the poor thing because the floppy > drive doesn't work.
I've heard this from a few others (some people had luck, some didn't). The potato boot floppies are still "work in progress", so we are mainly fixing things now. I'm hoping that I can have a tftpboot-noultra.img in the next set of boot floppies, which should be better suited for sun4c's. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
