Hi Paul: The CD's in Ultra-5's cannot read CD-RW media. However, they can read CD-R's just fine, as I found out after some gnashing of teeth.
So, burn a CD-R, and you should be in good shape -- it worked for me. Cheers, Keith On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:31:43PM -0600, paul cannon wrote: > 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] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
