I am attempting to install potato on a Sparc 2 (64M Ram, 410M HD). I am using the rescue floppy and the root floppy and getting the rest via nfs from a local machine. My background is Linux - mostly RedHat/Mandrake on i386 architecture machines.
9/10ths of the install seems to go fine, but I cannot make a boot floppy and the hard drive boot setup seems to fail. Now I suspect that I may have done the fdisk thing wrong and hosed the first cylinder (which I now understand is not good on a Sun). Originally, I had a 8M /boot partition starting at 0 and the a 64M swap and the rest as /. Then I tried 8M /boot starting at 1, then 64 M swap and the rest /. Did I need to do something to 'unhose' the first cylinder? What reasons are there for failure to make a boot floppy (I did try two different new floppies). John T
