Unable to create boot floppy

From: Walter Williams (wwilliams@a1above.net)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 16:41:49 PDT

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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 17:41:49 -0600
From: Walter Williams <wwilliams@a1above.net>
Subject: Unable to create boot floppy

    Greetings

    I have been trying to create a boot floppy to
    start the Linux install from. It does not matter
    which OS I format the disk under, whether ext2
    or DOS; if I use DOS(windows) rawrite, or Linux
    diskdump(on my Linux PC); I get the same message
    from openboot:

    Bad magic number in disk label
    Can't open Sun disk label package
    Can't open boot device

    What am I doing wrong?

    If I try to load from a CD it gets to the point
    where it starts loading packages and cruds out.
    Its like the SCSI bus dies, theres nothing there.

    I swear this Sparc system is determined not to
    have Linux loaded on it. Does anyone know what
    is going on here? (It loads Solaris7 just fine.)

    I have a Scarc IPX, 2GB drive, 64MB of memory,
    PowerUP chip, ROM version 2.4. (Do I need anything
    else?) 

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    Thanks
Walter L. Williams

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