thanks! will try this on Monday @ work with a better Internet connection. do you have an idea what's wrong with 2.2r7? yes, I saw the info about the OpenBoot bug preventing from booting floppies... downloaded a patch from Sun. did not applied yet, but maybe will try if CDs still not work. nikolaj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nikolaj Uzunow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 8:47 PM Subject: Re: boot CD/Floppy fot sun4u (UltraSPARC 5/10)
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 08:38:22PM +0200, Nikolaj Uzunow wrote: > > hi All, > > > > has anyone prepared boot CDs for this platform? > > I prepared 1st CD for Debian 2.2r7, but cannot boot from it using 'boot > > cdrom' (yes, I made it bootable - CD from CD image in Adaptec's EasyCD). > > Use Debian 3.0. You can use this netinst ISO (works pretty well): > > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso > > > btw - I was also unable to boot from a floppy... > > Most UltraSPARC's cannot boot from floppy at all. > > -- > Debian - http://www.debian.org/ > Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ > Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ > Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ >
