I've got an "Ultra 5" Sparc machines here on which I am going to install Debian. Unfortunately, I can't seem to make it boot to any installation media. The installation notes for Sparc imply that sun4u's don't support booting to the floppy, so that would explain my failures there, but I downloaded and burned an official 2.2_rev3 iso for sparc, and that won't boot either. After I do 'boot cdrom' at the ok prompt, the process begins, but the messages say:
---- Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args: Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package Evaluating: boot cdrom Can't open boot device ---- This is quite like the message displayed when I try to boot to a sparc rescue floppy. The cd burn seems to have been successful- I can mount it on other machines. Is this a known problem, and I simply can't find any documentation about it? Might something be wrong with the hardware here, or is it likely I'm doing something stupid? The CD in question is a CD-RW. Are Ultra-5's old enough that they can't read those? I don't have any account on the machine at the moment, so I've no way of trying to mount the CD under Solaris. (Please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to the list yet) -- paul cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] space software lab http://ssl.usu.edu/paul/ utah state university OpenNIC: http://paul.geek/ sparcing debian info: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
