[suse-sparc] recovering / installing system on an ipcas dtlk system

From: Klaus Sausen (deepblur@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Dec 31 2001 - 03:12:04 PST

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    Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:12:04 +0100
    From: Klaus Sausen <deepblur@gmx.net>
    Subject: [suse-sparc] recovering / installing system on an ipcas dtlk system
    

    hi, dear list,

    i posted a message on that topic early, hope you don't mind.
    recently got a nice old sparc system with 200mb conner scsi
    hdd and debian 2.0
    i downloaded the suse sparc isos and tried to install them instead
    of the debian system, but wasnt able to make it boot from cdrom
    nor from floppy disk (which i created on an intel machine)
    i read a lot of docs on that topic
    but the station always complained by presenting me the error
     "no sun disklabel"
    finally i managed to set up networking in debian and tried to
    make a netupdate of the kernel 2.0 based distri - which led me
    to space problems on the hdd.
    i swapped alot of directorys onto another machine and mounted
    them via NFS,
    but made one big mistake:
    wanted to do this with the /lib directory which brought me to
    the point where no single command works, since ldlinux.so
    is not found - i cannot recover this error in the system
    anymore and decided to fix it within my intel system.
    here i can't mount the partitions
    this is what fdisk tells me:
    Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 9 heads, 36 sectors, 1254 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 324 * 512 bytes

       Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 0 1011 163782 83 Linux native
    /dev/sda2 u 1011 1254 39366 82 Linux swap

    # mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/ds
    mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

    could anyone help me?
    if more information is needed... dont hesitate to let me know.

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