On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:20:28PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > because I'm not able to burn a Debian sparc boot CD just now I wonder > if I could insert a floppy drive into my brandnew E250 server to > install Debian from floppy. > > Any hints if I could use normal PC IDE hardware?
Sun machines are able to boot from network, so instead of fiddling with new hardware, it might be easier to do a net boot. See section 5.5 from the installation manual: http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/sparc/install Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
