OK, Now I get it. But I hadn't established that the CDROM was the problem. The CDROM (seems to) have no trouble by itself. Its when the boot sequence looks at the SCSI bus that the whole thing falls down. I can't imagine that anything different would happen if I removed the CDROM (and left the HDD in place), so I wouldn't be able to save the system on the HDD in any case.
Also this would be pushing the limit of my experience. (but hey I've obviously got some spare time, right) cheers Jonathan Pratt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2002 19:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DEBIAN 3.0 on a SPARC Classic X On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:19:34 +0930, "woodsend" writes: >This isn't a bad idea (ie it would work), but I really wanted these machines >to be stand-alone. you'd boot from tftp *once*, install stuff on disk and boot from there later on...duh. az -- + Alexander Zangerl + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + DSA 42BD645D + (RSA 5B586291) Cmdmt. XI: Thou shalt not inflict upon me thy useless prattlings, for I thy God am a busy God. -- Joe Thompson
