-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > > Everything is fine besides the floppy not being detected. > > > > Even if you got it detected, it wouldn't work well. Will likely cause > > the machine to crash or lockup. > > > > Floppy has never been supported very well on ultrasparc-linux in general > > It's not a Debian issue. > > Oh that's _very_ bad news! as I wanted to convert half a dozent Sun Blade > 100 from Sun Solaris to Debian Linux. > > Wadding thru the debian-sparc archive I find lots of complains about the > Blades not booting from floppy. Actually that is not my problem. It is > already installed and up and running. It makes a nice desktop machine. Alas > the floppy is not working... So even you said that ultralinux made a nice > desktop for years for you. Didn't you miss a floppy too? > > Bottom line: no floppy on ultralinux, no conversion :(
I'm using a Sun Blade 100 as a desktop workstation and everything works fine except the floppy. Purchasing a usb pendrive was a great solution to this, floppy's are dying anyhow. - -- Homepage: http://www.de-brauwer.be BSD is for Unix lover Linux is for windows haters, I run Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+r8M6pSQix3Sc+ZgRAk6aAKCs72Z8I92jfgg4wvqHygZPDMpPsgCeLHK7 5SmwGP6pqFxg+rxLzSjoLi4= =hL4o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
