Hi Greg, On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Greg wrote:
> someone mentioned that installing Debian on a Sparc leaves the floppy drive > unusable. I know this is true in OpenBSD-sparc, is this true of > Debian-sparc and in general of linux on sparcs? I am using a SunBlade 100 See [1]. Booting from floppies on the Ultra architecture is known to fail, because of a bug in the OpenBoot prom. However, I have no trouble reading, writing and mounting /dev/fd0 on an Ultra 10 running Linux. Regards, Pieter-Paul [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boo t-from-floppies
