On September 13, 2005 12:52 pm, Colin Stanners wrote this amazing epistle:
Didn't find this one. I knew they had one but didn't find a reference to it. I take it dd should work with this one?
Found it in my first 10 results ;-) dd should work, yes.
Interesting. I usually come up with commercial pages as well as social commentary. Maybe it's the aura I project. I can mess with Google for hours only to have someone else sit down and find what I was looking for in seconds. :-)
I tried dd. No joy. It said it couldn't find anything on the floppy. I may have entered it wrong. It should be "dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0" correct? BTW, Linux says something is there but it doesn't know what.
Later Mike
What was the exact error (and I am assuming this was on the Sun)?
Did you type 'boot floppy' at the ok> prompt? You may have to hit Stop-N to get to the ok> prompt before $OS starts booting (or send a break if you are doing all this over serial).
Given the reliability of Floppy drives and the age of a SS10, I would suggest booting off the network. Debian makes this _VERY_ easy.
Let me know exactly what you are seeing and I can help. Worst case, if you can get it downtown (just the machine, I have plenty of monitors/keyboards, etc) I can help you get it booting again.
shawn
On 13-Sep-05, at 3:21 PM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
On September 13, 2005 12:52 pm, Colin Stanners wrote this amazing epistle:
Didn't find this one. I knew they had one but didn't find a reference to it. I take it dd should work with this one?
Found it in my first 10 results ;-) dd should work, yes.
Interesting. I usually come up with commercial pages as well as social commentary. Maybe it's the aura I project. I can mess with Google for hours only to have someone else sit down and find what I was looking for in seconds. :-)
I tried dd. No joy. It said it couldn't find anything on the floppy. I may have entered it wrong. It should be "dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0" correct? BTW, Linux says something is there but it doesn't know what.
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