"Luca Zampetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is an old SPARC 5 with original Sun CD ROM device & hard disks ... > supposed to be used as a torture instrument for learning unix & linux ... > that does not help ... hello mr. Adam Di Carlo, aren't you the burner of > this thing? > > What do you think about it? > > Did you cook it too fast?
I don't burn CDs so don't look at me. Personally i have an Ultra 5 and I was unable to get it to book from the Sparc CDs at all. I had to use TFTP installation. However, the problem I got was different from your -- it just couldn't find the bootable bit on the CD at all. I dunno, maybe Ultra 5s have the wrong OpenBoot path and 'boot cdrom' just doesn't work on them. Maybe (most likely?) my CD-ROM is kinda broken. > > On 12/4/02 at 4:10 PM, Luca Zampetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, I know that this has nothing to do with you - but I am installing > > > debian linux for sparc on a SPARC machine and I am getting all the time > > > during the decompression of the files from the CDROM error messages > about > > > "corrupt files" like this > > > > > > file: /instmnt/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.9.21.sparc.deb was > > > corrupt I can only think that you're having a CD-ROM problem as well. Do you have a fast network? If so, you could download the pkgs from network. Or perhaps you could put the CD-ROM on another Unix box and NFS share it? -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
