Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:23:58 -0700 From: Marc Provencher <mprovenc@home.com> Message-id: <5.0.1.4.0.20001127102130.00a63cc0@netmail.home.com> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Help installing Suse 7.0 on Sparcstation 20
No insult taken :-)
It sounds like everyone so far is able to access the Disk1 of Suse 7.0
Sparc, using NT/Win9x/Linux. I can't even access mine from Linux or NT, so
I suspect that the image may be corrupted.
Marc.
At 05:45 PM 11/27/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Marc,
>
>Without meaning to insult you, did you just copy the file to a CD or did you
>use a program to copy the contents to the CD. I am running WIN98 on my
>laptop and I was able to burn a cd that I was able to access from windows,
>the image itself it not bootable or accessible unless you open it. I used
>the program Easy CD Creator to open the image. My impression of the image is
>that it is similar to a CAB file or a ZIP file. A single file used to
>contain multiple files.
>
>Shane Broomhall
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Provencher [mailto:mprovenc@home.com]
>Sent: 27 November 2000 3:36 PM
>To: suse-sparc@ns2.SuSE.com
>Subject: [suse-sparc] Help installing Suse 7.0 on Sparcstation 20
>
>
>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 ?
>
>Marc Provencher
>mprovenc@home.com
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