On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Al Snell wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] "Sjödin Lars, se it" wrote:
>
>> i tried dd if=disk1.fs.gz of=/dev/fd0 (Linux machine)
>> then boot floppy on my SS5 it complained about the floppy not being SUN
>> Label...
>> i tried the same on this machine some month ago with 1.4.2 and it worked..
>> perhaps i just dont remeber how i did :) but im trying to install 1.5 now
>> and well id be happy for any help here.
>
>I dd'ed a 1.5 boot disk from another Sparc machine, and my SS2 wouldn't
>have it (again complaining about the Sun label) so I had to install via
>netboot. I thought the floppy drive was most likely broken in the
>SS2... might I have been wrong?

I even made boot floppy from an i386 box, and used on an SS2 box.
It worked just fine.

          Regards

            Ruibiao

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