* Per J?nsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010213 17:05]: > I'm having big trouble creating the installation disks for installing > Debian on an Ultra-10 sparc machine. I have fetched the binaries > (sun4u) from a ftp mirror, but don't know how to create valid boot > disks. Each time I try to boot the rescue disk I get "Bad magic number in > disk label".. I use dd to write the image to the disk, but that isn't > sufficient. I've tried fdformat, format and rmformat to create a magic > number on the disk, as well as fdisk for creating a partition.
Most UltraSPARC machines have a PROM bug that prevents floppy booting. Please boot via cdrom of rarp/tftp.
