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| author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-12-31 02:03:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-12-31 02:03:44 +0000 |
| commit | 4a4e15797e825d72ed9bec1dd8f331634da534c3 (patch) | |
| tree | f8eed1b3650d9f75694d07de877a523f067701d8 /en/boot-installer/sparc.xml | |
| parent | 55ad0e76e8d02631d99a0b3613af952775173e76 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-4a4e15797e825d72ed9bec1dd8f331634da534c3.zip | |
- Clean out ancient hardware issues
- Update Sparc specific information; many thanks to Jurij Smakov for his review of the Sparc manual
Diffstat (limited to 'en/boot-installer/sparc.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/boot-installer/sparc.xml | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/en/boot-installer/sparc.xml b/en/boot-installer/sparc.xml index 22295dac4..5ab4ea5d8 100644 --- a/en/boot-installer/sparc.xml +++ b/en/boot-installer/sparc.xml @@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ machine which is being installed (see Use the command <userinput>boot net</userinput> to boot from a TFTP and RARP server, or try <userinput>boot net:bootp</userinput> or <userinput>boot net:dhcp</userinput> to boot from a TFTP and BOOTP -or DHCP server. Some older OpenBoot revisions require using -the device name, such as <userinput>boot le()</userinput>; these -probably don't support BOOTP nor DHCP. +or DHCP server. </para> </sect2> @@ -29,10 +27,7 @@ probably don't support BOOTP nor DHCP. Most OpenBoot versions support the <userinput>boot cdrom</userinput> command which is simply an alias to boot from the SCSI device on ID 6 -(or the secondary master for IDE based systems). You may have to use -the actual device name for older OpenBoot versions that don't support -this special command. Note that some problems have been reported on Sun4m -(e.g., Sparc 10s and Sparc 20s) systems booting from CD-ROM. +(or the secondary master for IDE based systems). </para> </sect2> @@ -42,6 +37,15 @@ this special command. Note that some problems have been reported on Sun4m <title>Booting from Floppies</title> <para> +Floppy images are currently only avaible for sparc32, but, for techinical +reasons, not for official releases. (The reason is that they can only be +built as root, which is not supported by our build deamons.) +Look under <quote>daily built images</quote> on +<ulink url="&url-d-i;">Debian Installer project website</ulink> for links +to floppy images for sparc32. + +</para><para> + To boot from floppy on a Sparc, use <informalexample><screen> @@ -51,8 +55,6 @@ Stop-A -> OpenBoot: "boot floppy" Be warned that the newer Sun4u (ultra) architecture does not support floppy booting. A typical error message is <computeroutput>Bad magic number in disk label - Can't open disk label package</computeroutput>. -Furthermore, a number of Sun4c models (such as the IPX) do not support -the compressed images found on the disks, so also are not supported. </para><para> |