On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: > Chris Brandstetter wrote: > > Last I knew, when I tried to install the first time on my Ultra 1 about 6 > > mos ago, and from what I have heard, > > you cannot install from a floppy. There is a problem booting Ultra > > machines off of a floppy. I would recomend waiting for the ISO's and > > doing it that way. It is a much easier way than the alternatives I know of > > (tftpboot :( ) Chris B > > I managed to install Debian potato from floppies on my Ultra 1 with no > problems. Slink's boot floppies didn't work though, while the contemporaneous > Redhat floppies did.
Then RedHat is using something that I don't have available, or am not aware of. These floppies are created with a Sun disk label, and made bootable using silo (which supports floppy boots, AFAIK). -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
