This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0040_01C0936C.127C9740 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Wanna sell it? ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David Demland=20 To: PLUG Discuss=20 Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:16 AM Subject: Sparc 5 I just got a Sparc 5 from work. It has a network card, a CD ROM, a = Floppy, a hard drive, a tape drive (not needed), keyboard, mouse = (optical), and a monitor. I would like to get Debian on it, but it seems = that when I boot up it is configured to look at only the hard drive. How = do I change this? I have make copies of the two disks from Debian that I = have to boot from, then I was hoping to install from the internet. Since = I have a CD ROM I was also thinking about use it but that will mean I = need a bootable CD ROM. I have no idea how to get a bootable CD ROM. But = again this leads to the basic problem of how to get the system to boot = from something other than the hard drive. Any ideas? David ------=_NextPart_000_0040_01C0936C.127C9740 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Wanna sell it?
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From:=20 David = Demland=20
To: PLUG Discuss =
Sent: Saturday, February 10, = 2001 10:16=20 AM
Subject: Sparc 5

I just got a Sparc 5 from work. It = has a network=20 card, a CD ROM, a Floppy, a hard drive, a tape drive (not needed), = keyboard,=20 mouse (optical), and a monitor. I would like to get Debian on it, but = it seems=20 that when I boot up it is configured to look at only the hard drive. = How do I=20 change this? I have make copies of the two disks from Debian that I = have to=20 boot from, then I was hoping to install from the internet. Since I = have a CD=20 ROM I was also thinking about use it but that will mean I need a = bootable CD=20 ROM. I have no idea how to get a bootable CD ROM. But again this leads = to the=20 basic problem of how to get the system to boot from something other = than the=20 hard drive.
 
Any ideas?
 
David
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