Hi all, First : I'm new to Debian, I'm new to Sparcs, so I'm really a newbie on both of these! (I received the sparc, because otherwise they throw it away and I wanted to try Debian out, since most people tell me it's the best linux os for a server)
I've followed the installation instructions and all went ok, until the end: 1. Creating the rescue floppy didn't work :-( It failed every time I tried 2. When I try to boot with 'boot disk', I get the following message: cannot find /vmlinuz (unknown ext2 error) I'm a little bit stuck here, since nothing is familiar for me. I've looked with google for answers, but most of them were a little bit cryptic, so I'm not wiser at the moment. I know about the sun disk label 's' and I think I did it right, but I'm not sure. I did the following: when creating partitions I did the following: I entered 's' and then just entered (thus letting Sun find itself). This resulted in 3 partitions, it removed all the previous partitions, is this normal? I deleted the first 2 (and left the 3rd alone, since I read that it was a special partition, needed to be on id 3). Then I created the following partitions: sb1 50 MB / sb2 16 MB /boot sb3 the special partition sb4 128 MB swap sb5 100 MB /home sb6 rest of the 2.1 GB /usr sba1 4.1 GB /var sba2 special partition This is mainly a server for the intranet, I hope my partitioning is ok. If not, please give some advice. Highly appreciated! Now, my questions: What did I do wrong? Why couldn't I create the rescue floppy? Is there a way to still create it? How can I proceed with the installation? Thanks in advance, Tom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
