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

From: Torbjørn Heltne (etotorh@ericsson.no)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2001 - 06:40:09 PST

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From: Torbjørn Heltne <etotorh@ericsson.no>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0102191534480.20515-100000@leif>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Help installing Suse 7.0 on Sparcstation 20

    On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, 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. I assumed the same thing, and my SS20 booted.

    Since you can't mount the CD there is probably something serious wrong
    with that CD. Can you mount the other 3?

    This might be silly, but ensure that you create the CD from the ISO file
    in such a way that you have the filesystem from the ISO file on your CD
    rather than one single large (~650MB) .iso file...!? 

    -- 
Torbjørn Heltne

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