Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:17:20 +0000 From: "Sivakumar Narayanan" <nsivakum@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Dumb Boot Questions on ultra 5 Message-ID: <BAY1-F140FgDKNuj8Nm00002dc5@hotmail.com>
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Hi,
An absolute beginner question:
I took the mini-inst 5.1 ISO, burnt it on a CD (RW). On a win2k
machine, I can see its contents with some directory structure:
packages, floppies, etc. Is this supposed to be bootable _as is_ on a
ultra 5 ?
At the "ok" prompt of the PROM, if I type in "boot cdrom", it
seemingly makes an attempt to read, but then fails with an error
message (close to) "Cannot find disk label" or "No disk label found".
I downloaded the boot.flp file in
/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/5.1-RELEASE/floppies but that is 4.1MB
-- So there is no way of using "dd" to write this onto a floppy and
boot this from there.
Any help?
Many thanks.
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