> > 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. ... > [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boo > t-from-floppies
Quote from the install instructions that url is referring to: "Furthermore, a number of Sun4c models (such as the IPX) do not support the compressed images found on the disks, so also are not supported." I would like to mention that I installed from floppies on an IPX and an Ultra1 with no problems. Peter
