Re: tlug: Data type 9 not supported?

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On <a couple of different occasions>, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:
>Help!  I can boot up my Sparc from a boot floppy.  I've got my disks
>partitioned (q: why does the 4.2 installer only format the swap partition
>(it's on sdb) but nothing else?  Never even asks about the rest), I get

The RedHat installation sequence does seem a bit odd.  It won't format
the other partitions until later in the install process.  You didn't
get that far.

> Do you know where I can get a boot.img for 5.1?  All of the stuff

There isn't one.  At least not yet.  RedHat claims that the glibc library
makes the boot image too large to fit on a floppy.  There was talk on the
mailing list of making a libc5-based boot disc, but it hasn't happened yet.

> involving RARP, etc.,  that you need to do for a tftp install is
> territory that I've never ventured into and which I sorta hope I can
> avoid venturing into when all I want is a nice, smooth install :-)

tftp isn't that bad... (Sonny, I remember back before there were
"distributions" for the Sparc and we *had* to walk 6 miles through
the snow just to tftpboot. :-)

If you want to avoid it (and since you are appearing to enjoy moving your
SCSI drives around :-):
  1. take out one of the drives
  2. connect it to another Linux/Unix box
  3. 'dd' the tftboot.img onto it
  4. connect the drive back to your SPARCstation
  5. and boot from that image.
The SCSI-sneakernet equivalent of TFTP booting.

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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo     ICQ: 5981586   AIM: Jim7J1AJH

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