Followup: Nothing I tried, and as the archive of the debian-sparc mailing list shows nothing that several other people have tried, worked.
I ended up making the rescue.bin and root.bin floppies, and " boot floppy" worked. Many thanks to the Debian Sparc development team for making a system that, even from floppies, is installable while stuck on a serial console. And thanks also to Mark Zimmerman for how to send an "L1-A" (better known as "break" to the previously initiated). Curt- Curt Howland wrote: > > Good evening. Please reply directly, as I cannot keep up with the > traffic on debian-user. > > I'm trying to install Debian Woody on a Sparc. I have successfully > gotten the cdrom to boot, but the boot ceases after a little while with > the following: -- "Wherever I go, everyone is a little bit safer because I am there. Wherever I am, anyone in need has a friend. Whenever I return home, everyone is happy I am there." ---The Warrior Creed, Robert L. Humphrey, USMC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
