floppy install on an ultra5

chris_andrew · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:15 pm Post subject: floppy install on an ultra5

Is it possible to do a netinstall (internet), using boot floppies, on my Ultra 5? I have given up on trying to get the CD to boot.

Thanks,

Chris.

blaster999 · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject:

ciaranm · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:23 pm Post subject:

I fixed the title... And no, you can't floppy boot sparc64 kit because of a PROM bug. You have to either cd or full netboot it.

chris_andrew · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your reply. Better try to sort the CD out, then. As Debian is the only distro that seems to work in my CD drive, looks like I may have to just have Gentoo on the i386's.

Cheers,

Chris.

ck3k · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 10 Location: Petaluma Ca

My ultra 5 handles cds just fine, didn't have one problem with the livecd, I would suggest perhaps checking out your cddrive, I also purchased an external cdrom drive for some of the other sparcs, might want to looking to something like that as well.
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