On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 06:12:53AM -0800, George Tsilikas wrote:
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> I have an old SLC sparc and I want to install
> <ANY> unix-like operating system on it. I have
> started with RedHat Linux but the netboot failed
> because of a problem with the frame buffer.
> Just today I tried to install NetBSD 1.4.1 and the
> netboot failes because of a problem with NetBSD
> 1.4.X that believes that there is a floppy drive
> and panics. I have read a numerous e-mails from
> people with the same problem in both SLC & ELC and
> I also found a patch to fix that problem (of
> course I don't have NetBSD pre-installed to make a
> new kernel).

Did you try ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/1.4.2/ ?
I think the problem is solved here.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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