Debian Bootable CD Rom

[Aaron]

Great, I am downloading both CD images as we speak and will burn them at work
tomorrow.  My system starts up in PROM right now (I set the enviroment variable to
no boot device) so I will just pop the CD in and try to boot to it.  For some reason
Red Hat just wouldn't boot.

One more question for you...  Since you have an IPX.  What is performance like in X
for you?  I was a little worried that my Sparc 5 would be a little slow.

mike neuliep wrote:

> I know the debian bootable cd v2.1 for sparc works just fine.  You can down
> load it from ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/debian-cd  Get the split version
> and then 'cat' it together if you are on a slow link.
>
> Once burned, turn on your sparc, immediately hit "stop-a" combination of keys
> and then type 'b cdrom' if you are using the new rom style bootprom.  If your
> bootrom tells you it is in the old bootstyle, you need to enable the new boot
> rom style first.
>
> Let me know if this works...
>
>         Mike Neuliep
>         mike at illiana.net
>
> ps:  this worked great on my sparc IPX
>