On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:47:44AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:04:25PM -0700, Tim Ellis wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:43:24 -0400 > > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. boot to the "ok" prom and do "boot disk:1" -- this is different > > > > > than Kevin's "boot disk1:1" etc. > > > > > > > > This was actually the step you needed. > > > > > > Okay, then. > > > > > > I only know this via hearsay, but I've been told on normal Sun > > > installations you never make a partition start at 0, because Sun stores > > > the partition table there. I notice there are no such warnings about > > > installing Debian on SPARC. > > > > > > Is this an urban myth? > > > > Somewhat. You never want to put a Linux swap partition on sector zero. > > Unless it is v1+ swap partition.
Ah, didn't know that. Fortunately all new Debian sparc installs are v1+. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
