From 7afb7da18c66015e9f428dd67f75b16cb6aeb91f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frans Pop Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:36:32 +0000 Subject: * Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc. --- en/boot-installer/sparc.xml | 46 --------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 46 deletions(-) (limited to 'en/boot-installer/sparc.xml') diff --git a/en/boot-installer/sparc.xml b/en/boot-installer/sparc.xml index 4a82c9647..a0f0fd508 100644 --- a/en/boot-installer/sparc.xml +++ b/en/boot-installer/sparc.xml @@ -29,52 +29,6 @@ Most OpenBoot versions support the boot cdrom command which is simply an alias to boot from the SCSI device on ID 6 (or the secondary master for IDE based systems). - - - - - - Booting from Floppies - - -Floppy images are currently only available for sparc32, but, for technical -reasons, not for official releases. (The reason is that they can only be -built as root, which is not supported by our build daemons.) -Look under daily built images on the -Debian Installer project website for links -to floppy images for sparc32. - - - -To boot from floppy on a Sparc, use - - -Stop-A -> OpenBoot: "boot floppy" - - -Be warned that the newer Sun4u (ultra) architecture does not support -floppy booting. A typical error message is Bad magic -number in disk label - Can't open disk label package. - - - -Several Sparcs (e.g. Ultra 10) have an OBP bug that prevents them from -booting (instead of not supporting booting at all). The appropriate -OBP update can be downloaded as product ID 106121 from -. - - - -If you are booting from the floppy, and you see messages such as - - -Fatal error: Cannot read partition -Illegal or malformed device name - - -then it is possible that floppy booting is simply not supported on -your machine. - -- cgit v1.2.3