Ok so I found an old ISO (11-7-2000) and installed that. The install
went well except for the fact that it won't boot. I'm sure this is
something small but it's escaping me. At boot I get:
Boot device: disk:a File and args:
Fast Data Acess MMU Miss
ok
No booty.
Any ideas?
-Bill
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:35:37PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> 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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