I have an Ultra1 and I installed Debian using the boot floppies. Typing in "boot floopy" at the ok prompt seemed to work just fine. Tom Korte
On Sat, 12 May 2001 14:58:49 Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:40:51PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > These are based on the latest CVS of boot-floppies. The major change > is > > > that the sun4u images are built from the 2.4.4 kernel images. The > best > > > part about this is that this means that should support Blade 100/1000 > > > (don't hold me to this, I can't test them) since they are synced with > > > vger CVS as of today. The sparc32 images are still based on 2.2.19. > > > > Oy. Is it really worth it to jump to 2.4.x just for blade? > > > > Is the 2.4.4 kernel in testing at all? If not, could it be uploaded > > with urgency HIGH to get it into testing? > > Absolutely. It was worth upgrading auric to 2.4.x because of the > stability issues. No, neither the 2.2.19 images, nor the 2.4.4 images > are in testing. The 2.2.19 image needs one bug fix. The 2.4.4 images > were 9 days old, now they are 1 day old again...so time is the only > issue. I'll get new 2.2.19 images uploaded tonight. > > > > You'll notice that the sun4u rescue image is 2880k. I know that > sparc's > > > don't have 2880k floppies, but then again, most ultrasparc's that I > have > > > used can't boot from floppy anyway. You'll need to netboot with the > > > provided tftp image, unless you know how to create a bootable CD with > > > the provided files (isn't too hard). > > > > So you're completely dropping 1440k floppies? > > Read that, dropping 1440k floppy support for sun4u (not sparc32 like > sun4c, sun4m, sun4d). It's not like the support was used much anyway. > The 2.4.4 sun4u images wont fit on a 1440k image, so I have no choice. > > > BTW, my only woody box is a SPARC, so I've been doing the > > boot-floppies source/binary builds on that. > > Yeah. That's why I'm just worrying about sun4u, since I can test those. > Let me know if there are any oddities with sparc32 boot. > > Ben > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux > \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
