ok... I've googled and found lots of people with the same problem but nowhere found the answer...
Trying to install debian (sparc non-us disk one) 2.2r4 on a sparc5, I can't boot the cd - I get: bad magic number in disk label can't open disk label package it's not the machine or cd drive etc as I can boot off a solaris 8 cd fine. All I can guess is the ISO i downloaded got some weird corruption in the boot sector or whatever but would prefer to avoid downloading it again (another 3 days of ftp'ing!). What's even more annoying is google found lots of people with the same error sometimes disks sometimes cds. For the disk ones I've seen suggestions of running Sun's "format" on the disk and re-writing the disk label - obviously no use for a cdrom. I guess as an experiment is there a small bootable debian sparc cd image I can download and burn and try? just enough to apt-get the rest (like the linuxcare business card cd thing). But ideally, what's the problem??? Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
