Hi people, I recently spent a great deal of time downloading Mandrake 7.1 for SPARC on my 56k modem.
Any way I burnt the ISO to cd-rom and stuck it in my Sparc Station 5 to
boot. SILO boots and I get the welcome screen, I type in text <enter>
and the cd-rom starts to boot the text image but half way through doing
that it fails and says verbatim below:
failed to open /dev/tty1failed.
I can't recover from this.
I've tried booting different images like expert and Linux but the same
error occurs.
I have to use the SPARC5 through a serial terminal because I don't have
a compatible monitor but I do have a compatible keyboard and mouse.
I have tried setting input-device to keyboard and output-device to ttya
but the setup tells me that there is an inconsistent console.
Any help very much appreciated.
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