Jules Bean wrote: > > Phew! > > Us sludgy cam-abouts have at last got all the CDs to the right places.. > > And I have at last tried out some sparc CDs, burnt by matthew I think, and > they boot fine on my sparc 2. > > Are there any tests I can do which don't involve nuking my system? > > Since I can't simultaneously have both my hard-disks, and my CD, on the > machine at once, I can't easily do a reinstall in full.. > > Jules > I have a Sparc IPX with an external ( bootable I think ) cdrom That I would dearly LOVE to Do a full reinstall on I unfortunately have only a Dial up internet connection and no cd recorder available to me.
I am more than willing to test things up to and including nuking the system let me know if I can help ( PS the weird Booting failures I had posted here were cause by the Maxtor HD For some reason the machine will not boot with it installed external also the machine has just started to hang.. right after reporting the PROM info but before going to the memory test IF I have the external scsi powered up.. shut it down Boot sequence starts and I can get it fired back up in time for detection by the Kernel ) Dan