Re: [SLUG] Woody on Spac64

[Lance Bell <ljb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Humphreys wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:04:02PM +1100, Lance Bell wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi guys.
> > I have a Sun Sparc64 (Sun4u). I have tried to use woody CD's boot floppies
> >    
>
> Never heard of such a machine. The sun4u arch is a 64 bit sparc chip...
> perhaps you mixed something up.
>
>  
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> > RH6.3 cds and tried to make a boot cdrom and it won't play.
> >
> > In particular I want to put woody on it. I noticed that the silo.conf on 
> > the
> > woody cds points to sparc64.gz as a boot image but there is on a sparc64
> > uncompressed boot as far as I can see. If I type "rescue" at the silo 
> > boot promt
> > it does two nies and i end up with
> > booting linux...
> >    
>
> Want to have another go at all that. I'm having trouble making sense of
> it.
>
> -Colin
>  
I am trying to install linux on it, my pref is debian.
Its a SunUltraII (sun4u) sparc64.