On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:37:10PM +1000, Del Campo, Damian wrote: > Hi, I've got a SparcStation 2 and I've downloaded potato for it. > > I've tried booting with the Debian CD but it doesn't boot, I think this may > be because the CD is external. It also has two external hard drives so I've > tried the boot both with them on and with them off. > > I've also tried booting with rescue.bin and the root.bin floppy disks but it > doesn't seem to notice them. I can see a light near the drive but there are > no messages during the boot that indicate it has looked at it. (My > understanding was that I use the rescue.bin, then root.bin then the drivers > disks, & then I should be able to go from the CDs) > > What am I doing wrong ?
You aren't reading the docs. To boot from other than the default harddrive, you need to pass a command to the PROM. Read the install docs for how to do this (basically, you hit STOP+A, then type "boot xxxx", where xxxx is the something for either floppy or cdrom). Ben -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- SPARC/UltraSPARC Porter -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
