yeah that is what i have been told, so even when i bypass it, when the ultra 5 tries to boot from memory it gets the error
Cant boot from disk1:a File found is not an executable or something similar to that, does that help at all ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mario Zuppini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Debian on an ULTRA 5 > To my knowledge booting of a floppy is not supported in the 'Ultra' series > of Sparc computers. So, probably you have to bypass that option. > > ============================================================================ === > John Kerr Anderson > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 > ============================================================================ === > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Mario Zuppini wrote: > > > People's, > > > > Spanky new ultra sparc 5 sitting next to me, and trying to install > > debian on it, it wont let me create boot disk during the installation > > process, when it asks to enter a floppy to create, i do which results > > in the immediate message of > > > "your disk is either write protected or not inserted in the first > > floppy drive, please insert in first floppy" > > > > there is only one floppy drive in there, and the disk isnt write > > protected, this happens upon any disk i use. > > > > If however i select the option to bypass and reboot the system to > > continue installation, it reboots and is looking for the floppy and > > wont boot off the harddisk ? > > > > Has anyone had any similar or know how to fix my troubles that I have > > had trying to install debian on the ultra 5 sparc ?? > > > > Helpppppppppp > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
