netinst image looking for non-existant dir

[Andrew Sharp]

The netinst image at ~bcollins doesn't work because it's looking for
.../images-2.88/rescue.bin, but there is no images-2.88 directory, only
images-1.44.  Is there somewhere else that I should be getting this?  I
must say that going to www.debian.org and trying to get any cd image
pointers for sparc is really a bummer, it's just not represented at all.
That should really be fixed.

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Re: booting from floppies on an IPC

[Eric Huiban]

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On Sunday  1 September 2002 12:54, William Law wrote:
> Hey All,
>   Have created the boot floppies (rescue, drivers 1, drivers 2) and
> tried getting my sparc ipc to boot from them.  below is the message
> that it returned to me (initiated via serial):
>
> ok boot fd()linux
> Booting from: fd(0,0,0)linux
> Can't read disk label.
> Can't read boot blocks.
> Boot load failed
> ok
>
> I have also tried booting from cdrom, but it cracks it (bad magic
> numbers, etc).
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?

first : use brand new floppies... and then :
- -open your IPC,
- -remove the floppy,
- -remove the floppy cover,
- -make some house cleaning, remove dust...
- -use isopropylic alcohol to gently clean both heads.
- -wait for complete evaporation...
- -put the floppy cover in its place...
- -mount the floppy...
- -and : go ! :-)

It worked for my own dirty IPC (dust, metalic powers, pigeons drops... 
retired from an open space plant...)
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