On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 22:56, David Fitch wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:07:07PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
> > I know that this may be a little off but I have installed Linux on DEC
> > alpha.
> > What I had to keep in mind was that I needed to create a 1 meg fat bootable
> > partition, otherwise Linux or NT would not boot. Hope this tidbit helps.
>
> so far I haven't got it to boot off the debian cd (but it does off
> the solaris cd) so haven't got to making partitions etc yet.
>
> I hope I don't need a fat partition for linux! (and AFAIK nt won't
> run on a sparc not that you would want to surely!).
You will not need to do this.
I'm not familiar with a sparc5 so I cannot offer any help on the matter
but I would highly recommend searching the debian-sparc archives and
perhaps also fielding your question there. The closest SPARC I have to
yours is a SPARC Station 20 and it boots off the CD (well, it needs to -
no floppy!).
A small question, are you using "boot cdrom" from the boot prompt?
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