Bill Swingle wrote:
> Should I be able to boot the sun4c floppy image from the floppy drive on
> my Ultra 5?
>
> The last time I played with Slackware on my U5 there was an rsync server
> that one could get ISO images from but it looks like that machien is
> gone now.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The full ISO has been suspended after the initial porting was done.
A mini-iso image is available now. Everything is on the main FTP
site and I believe rsync is also useable to access the site.
The mini-iso should at least boot, install 'a' and 'n', and get
you up and running to download more and go.
Normally Slackware does not have -current ISOs available, although
other people often make them.
I did a full install on my SS 5/85 by doing the following. I built
a very primitive bootable ISO (see the hidden ".boot" directory in
the sparc/slackware-current tree) with no packages, and loaded up
all the packages on a 2 gig portable HD I had. Then I attached the
HD (which is in a Sun 411 case) to the SS 5/85 and booted the CD and
went for the install. Worked great.
Another option if you have the spare disk space is to boot the mini-iso
and install 'a' and 'n' to a small extra partition at the end of the
drive on on the 2nd drive if you have one. Then boot that system up
to get networking and download the packages to another partition (or
maybe the same one as mini-install went to if you made it bigger).
Now that you have all your packages, boot the ISO made from the .boot
directory (so it has the correct install scripts) and install everything
from disk.
Of course you can just burn your own install CD based on instructions
in .boot/README.
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