Re: Debian on an ULTRA 5

2000-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:28:22PM +1000, Mario Zuppini wrote: yeah that is what i have been told, so even when i bypass it, when the ultra 5 tries to boot from memory it gets the error Cant boot from disk1:a File found is not an executable Is the PROM prompt, try boot disk. I'm not sure

Debian on an ULTRA 5

2000-10-22 Thread Mario Zuppini
is looking for the floppy and wont boot off the harddisk ? Has anyone had any similar or know how to fix my troubles that I have had trying to install debian on the ultra 5 sparc ?? Helpp

Re: Debian on an ULTRA 5

2000-10-22 Thread John Anderson
the option to bypass and reboot the system to continue installation, it reboots and is looking for the floppy and wont boot off the harddisk ? Has anyone had any similar or know how to fix my troubles that I have had trying to install debian on the ultra 5 sparc ?? Helpp

Re: Debian on an ULTRA 5

2000-10-22 Thread Mario Zuppini
PROTECTED] To: Mario Zuppini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Debian on an ULTRA 5 To my knowledge booting of a floppy is not supported in the 'Ultra' series of Sparc computers. So, probably you have to bypass that option