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Diffstat (limited to 'en/preparing/bios-setup')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/preparing/bios-setup/s390.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | en/preparing/bios-setup/sparc.xml | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/en/preparing/bios-setup/s390.xml b/en/preparing/bios-setup/s390.xml index b65f25f14..a0cf8e648 100644 --- a/en/preparing/bios-setup/s390.xml +++ b/en/preparing/bios-setup/s390.xml @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ In order to install &debian-gnu; on a &arch-title; or zSeries machine you have first boot a kernel into the system. The boot mechanism of this platform is inherently different to other ones, -especially from PC-like systems: there are no floppy devices available -at all. You will notice another big difference while you work with +especially from PC-like systems, and +you will notice a big difference while you work with this platform: most (if not all) of the time you will work remote, with the help of some client session software like telnet, or a browser. This is due to that special system architecture where the diff --git a/en/preparing/bios-setup/sparc.xml b/en/preparing/bios-setup/sparc.xml index 7def315bc..a88c9fe1a 100644 --- a/en/preparing/bios-setup/sparc.xml +++ b/en/preparing/bios-setup/sparc.xml @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ the <ulink url="&url-openboot;">Sun OpenBoot Reference</ulink>. </para><para> +<!-- Typically, with newer revisions, you can use OpenBoot devices such as <quote>floppy</quote>, <quote>cdrom</quote>, <quote>net</quote>, <quote>disk</quote>, or <quote>disk2</quote>. These have the obvious @@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ whatever your revision, see the <ulink url="&url-openboot;">Sun OpenBoot Reference</ulink>. </para><para> +--> To boot from a specific device, use the command <userinput>boot <replaceable>device</replaceable></userinput>. You can set this |