Hi
I've had similar problems in that I'm pretty sure I burned the iso image
correctly with labels and everything, but in using a SCSI Mac cdrom
extrenally to my Sparc 1+, it will try to boot from teh cdrom (reading it
for a couple minutes) and finally giving a couple errors about not being
able to read various disk labels.  I've got a bunch of HDs al of which
have garbage on them.
So my question is, any ideas about the problems booting from teh cd?
Could it be the cd burned incorrectly?  The fact it isa CDR?  Or a problem
with teh drive itself?  And then, is what you are saying about dd'ing the
cd over to one of hte hd's possible with my setup?
-Andy

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Greg Lim wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> I've had trouble also, trying to find a cdrom drive to boot a Sparc from.
> Here's my solution: Use the "dd" command.
>
> I've tried this on x86 and a SparcStation1 as well as even an
> Intergraph2000 box(running clix though...)
>
> I just setup an el-cheapo Linux box and dd'd the entire contents of the boot
> cdrom to a spare SCSI hard drive. Then I set the spare hard drive up with
> the
> SCSI ID normally used by the cdrom. If you have an external enclosure, you
> can even swap "cdrom's" if you are careful.
>
> dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/sda
> or
> dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/dev/sda
>
> Worked great, and it was faster than a cdrom install and I think
> it may have been faster than a network install.
>
> Oh, and if anybody wants the Intergraph box, you can have it. Just ask. I
> live in
> Atlanta GA....
>
> -Greg Lim
> glim-at-infistar-dot-com
> -
>