Very frustrating indeed.. But at least now I don't have to spend any more hours on the floppies!
Per On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Joshua Uziel wrote: >* 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. > >
