Re: [suse-sparc] Help installing Suse 7.0 on Sparcstation 20

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Sun Nov 26 2000 - 23:43:58 PST

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From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20001127084358.A23073@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Help installing Suse 7.0 on Sparcstation 20

    Hi,

    On Sun, Nov 26, Marc Provencher wrote:

    > Just need a few pointers on installing Suse 7.0 on my Sparcstation 20.
    >
    > I got the 4 iso images from an ftp site. I assumed the first disk would be
    > bootable, so I booted my sparcstation with the "boot cdrom" command. I get
    > the message:
    >
    > Rebooting with command cdrom
    > Boot device:/iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@6,0:d File and args:
    > SIProgram terminated
    >
    > Hmm..... and I can't even mount the CD on my linux box either, even less on
    > my NT box !
    >
    > Is my first disk corrupted ? I never did check the md5sums.. I just assumed
    > everything was going to work OK, as it usually does (ahemm...).
    >
    > Am I right in assuming that the first disk image should get me a bootable
    > CD that should work on a Sparcstation 20 ?

    Yes, the first CD is bootable and should work nice on a SparcStation 20.
    I have no problems here with my single and MP Sparcstations 20.
    If you cannot mount it under Linux nor NT, your image is broken.
    You should check the MD5 sums.

      Thorsten 

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