Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:23:41 +0100 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20001121102341.A28712@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Install problems (Sparc-5)
On Tue, Nov 21, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> * root <520041204488-0001@t-online.de> [001121 01:07]:
> > > Yep, the floppy boot image is broken... just boot off of cd or network
> > > for now.
> >
> > SuSE for SPARC supports no booting from floppy. I have this information
> > from Thorsten Kukuk.
>
> Well, not supported until one of us fixes it. :)
The answer was different, we spoke about UltraSPARCs.
SuSE Linux for SPARC does not support booting from floppy on
UltraSPARC machines. Most of the UltraSPARCs are not able to boot
from floppy (ask Dave Miller about the openprom bug), and for the
others the kernel is to big to fit in a usefull configuraton on disk.
Thorsten
-- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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