Thank you much for your detailed answer, Tim! The more I tried, I think I do have a hardware problem.
When I'm in the stop-a -> ok prompt, I used boot cd and it goes fetches inside the cdrom and it complains about: bad magic number in disk label can't open disk label package can't open boot device I called the disk zoot-sparc.iso , do I need to use all numbers to label the disk instead? Don't know if you have the answer to that. When I used probe-scsi-all it gives the hard drives targets 0 and 3 as DEC and Seagate and then target 6 being the portable cd device it recognized as SONY. Rgds, Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: Re: where can I download linux for sparc? > > BTW I downloaded redhat zoot-sparc.iso and my sparc10 cdrom cannot read > > it, said scsi device 6,0 is not responding. I guess may be it is not > > compatible. > > Make sure your SPARC can boot from the CDROM before going any further. Be > positive you don't have a hardware problem, or you'll just be frustrated > for a long time. > > Once all that's sorted, look up "jigdo" and go from there. > http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd > > A piece of advice about jigdo: ALWAYS choose an HTTP site, NEVER choose an > FTP site. I and at least one other person have bad experiences with wget > trying to get things from FTP sites. I could not get my Debian SPARC ISOs > built until I figured out this little idiosyncracy. > > If you truly want to download an ISO, I think you have to settle for 2.x > (Potato?). Those are the only true ISOs I could find. All 3.x (Woody) was > in jigdo format, which appears to be The Way Of The Future. > > Notice here: > http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/current/jigdo > > There's a "sparc" directory at the very bottom. > > All this I found from debian.org following what I figured were obvious > links. > > Enjoy, > -- > Tim Ellis > Senior Database Architect > Gamet, Inc.
