Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@suse.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 02:39:32 PST

  • Next message: Stephen Gallacher: "Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install"

    Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:39:32 -0800
    From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com>
    Message-ID: <20001212023932.A23107@gimp.org>
    Subject: Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install
    

    * Stephen Gallacher <stephen@udcf.gla.ac.uk> [001212 02:27]:
    > I am trying to do a network install of suse to a sparc 5 which has no
    > floppy drive. I have set up another system as a boot server and
    > downloaded Joshua Uziel's "floppy32" file from
    > http://suse.com/~uzi/sparc/
    >
    > When the sparc 5 loads the image it says " file just loaded is not
    > executable". Is there a tftpboot image anywhere for suse 7 (sparc) ?

    You wouldn't netboot a floppy boot image... there is a netboot image on
    the root of the CD in the "tftp" directory... the "tftp32.img" file for
    your machine. Good luck. :)



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