Yes, Potato install will be a lot less of an headache to get up and running. And from memory (I have an IPX also, set up a /boot partition since I replaced the OEM drive with a 9GB -- no idea if the later IPX prom has the 1GB problem) you'll have to boot manually from silo the first time, then edit /etc/silo.conf (And I probably should move mine to /boot also)
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > I am a Primary School teacher whose school has inherited a SPARC IPX > > running SunOS 4.1.3U. I am new to SPARC's but not to Linux. I've > > installed the base package of SLINK 2.1 (kernel 2.0.35) in a '/boot' > > partition '/sda1' (28MB). I previously used to fire up the Sun with the > > following from the new prompt: > > This is where the problem lies. Silo looks for the image on the boot > partition (very unlike a PC, in which lilo references an disk block as > opposed to being able to read the filesystem like silo can). > > You can either boot with init=/bin/bash and edit /etc/silo.conf manually, > or do an install with just one partition (no need to seperate partitions > if you don't have to). > > I also suggest going with a potato install as opposed to slink.
