Subject: Re: Booting minniroot off a IPX floppy.
To: Abraham J. Stephens <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/30/1998 18:18:04
Is this the boot floppy image from:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/incoming/mrg/
?
David/absolute
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Abraham J. Stephens wrote:
> Hi I have been using FreeBSD for about a year, recently an old IPX was
> donated to my group. I would like to use it as a web server and perhaps
> as a file server. I have run into one major problem when attempting to
> install, after dd'ing the miniroot image using the FreeBSD machine, I
> reboot the sparc by entering a <stop>+<a> then typing 'boot floppy' at the
> prompt. The machine reboots and attempts to boot off the fd device but it
> dumps me back to the 'ok' prompt after displaying a memory error.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
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> Abraham J. Stephens
> DIRECTOR SIS
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