Sparc boot disks

2001-04-08 Thread Roderick Cummings
I'm having trouble installing debian on an Ultra E1. I have (several times 
over the last couple of weeks) downloaded fresh copies of the rescue and 
driver-1 disk from the sun4u directory, and the root disk as well. I've 
written them to several different new disks.


I get through to the part where I install the drivers disk onto the 
harddrive. It says, This is disk 1 of 1 in the drv14-sun4u series 
27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST, Wrong Disk This is from series drv14-sun4u, You need 
disk 1 of series the driver series [sic]


The rescue and drivers disks should match they both came from the same sun4u 
directory on ftp.debian.org, and the errors message doesn't make sense.


What can I try to fix this? I can install on E1's with a CD, but the 2 E1's 
I have now, do not have a CD rom drive, the drives were stolen by someone 
from another department. I could probably find a temporary drive, but there 
must be something wrong with the boot disks or perhaps my brain is out of 
wack, and I don't realize something obvious.

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Re: Sparc boot disks

2001-04-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:45:39AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote:
 I'm having trouble installing debian on an Ultra E1. I have (several times 
 over the last couple of weeks) downloaded fresh copies of the rescue and 
 driver-1 disk from the sun4u directory, and the root disk as well. I've 
 written them to several different new disks.
 
 I get through to the part where I install the drivers disk onto the 
 harddrive. It says, This is disk 1 of 1 in the drv14-sun4u series 
 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST, Wrong Disk This is from series drv14-sun4u, You need 
 disk 1 of series the driver series [sic]
 
 The rescue and drivers disks should match they both came from the same sun4u 
 directory on ftp.debian.org, and the errors message doesn't make sense.
 
 What can I try to fix this? I can install on E1's with a CD, but the 2 E1's 
 I have now, do not have a CD rom drive, the drives were stolen by someone 
 from another department. I could probably find a temporary drive, but there 
 must be something wrong with the boot disks or perhaps my brain is out of 
 wack, and I don't realize something obvious.

im not sure about the floppy problem, but an alternate solution is
installing drivers via the single drivers.tgz tarball over the
network.  is the nic supported by the kernel as is? or do you need a
module first?  if you need a module first your stuck figuring out the
floppy problem, if not just tell dbootstrap to fetch the drivers via
http.

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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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