On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:36:01PM +0100, F. Schoenahl wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I wanted to start a debian installation on an SUN UltraSparc 10, I have read > that I may experience problems installing it, and indeed, I have problems. > > I have burnt the sparc CD1 iso - nonUs to a cd rw, and tried to boot on it > from openboot - > > ok boot cdrom > > The "disk label" is not recognised, no "boot device" found etc. I found some > message in the archive, but no solutions -- one was floppy - but I get the > same error with both sun4u and sun4cm burnt images (dd if=root.img > of=<floppydevice>). > > The solaris CD boots perfectly. The floppy boots correctly on an old sparc 5. > > How could I force my ultra10 to boot from the floppy, tune openboot?? - > are there particular options to burn the CD?
I'm not sure the nonUS CD was created properly. You can try the sparc-mini.iso at: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
