Hi Gabor. No need to burn images.
It's just a while ago I had to solve that problem. I checked it yesterday before I answered your question, but I did not wait long enougth to see the error message when CD boot started. You are right, you have to specify a root device. Take that one specified in /boot/silo.conf on your CD. In /boot/silo.conf you will find a line specifying the initial ram disk. Use that. This means, you have to type: /boot/sparc64 initrd=/dists/..... Doing this I get the Woody installation init screen. I stopped when it came to initialize the hard disk :-) Regards, Hartwig On Wednesday 23 July 2003 03:41, you wrote: > Hi Hartwig, > > That seems to do work from the boot prompt. > > But I do not have yet a system so there is now / (root) and since this > is bypasses the silo.conf (it seems) it quits at the end of booting the > image. > > So how I can do the install this way, I mean how the initrd will be > loaded and from where. Or can I do the install with the rescue label > > Sorry, asking this details, I am not new to linux at all but never had > any problem this kind (with lilo or grub).... also this is my first > attempt of installing debian. > > I am an avid Slackware user. I installed slack on anything from 386dx, > Dual Pentium Pro, all kinds of Pentiums, laptop (486SX) from floppy, > over nfs anything you can thing of. I still like Slack but Patric > stopped the Sparc port for some time... > > Thanks in advance, > > Gabor > > PS the final solution would probably to burn my on ISO (which I wanted > to avoid so I just ordered one
