See I TOLD you I was a newbie ;-) I'm using Potato 2.2.16-2000-07-02 / Sun4DM-PCI for ALL the files I create the diskettes on my WinNT workstation (probably my 1st mistake)....
The WinNT machine is the only box I have connected to the Internet right now. Since the Voyager was an old Gov't machine-I don't have ROOT login or password and I can't log in to the local SunOS. That's why I want to wipe and load.... I'll attempt to do the Network Install. Thanks to all for your assistance! -----Original Message----- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:21 AM To: Mike Lewis Cc: Debian-Sparc List (E-mail) Subject: Re: Sparc VOYAGER and Debian LINUX On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:06:26AM -0400, Mike Lewis wrote: > I recently acquired a Sparcstation VOYAGER through a gov't auction. I would > like to load DEBIAN Linux to the machine, but have run into the following > issue (forgive the Newbie...). > > When attempting to load from diskette (I didn't get a CD-ROM drive with the > unit), I am unable to load the ROOT diskette. The Rescue diskette boots, > but when I attempt to load the ROOT filesystem diskette, I get an error > message: > > I/O error, Dev 02:00 (floppy), Sector 0 > > I have attempted to recreate the ROOT diskette several times. Can anyone > tell me the PROPER way to generate the ROOT filesytem on diskette? I'm not familiar with the VOYAGER system. Is that a sun4d? Anyway, you need to specify what version of Debian you are trying to install (slink/potato?) and the version of boot-floppy images you are using aswell. As for the proper way to write the diskettes, insert a floppy and do: dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 IOW, if you wrote the rescue.bin properly, chances are you wrote the root.bin properly aswell. If all else fails, read the Debian/SPARC install docs on setting up a network boot install. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
