[clug] Sparc 5 and Debian

[Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au]

Hello all,

Last night I was installing Debian on a Sparc 5 and everything
works fine up until making the system bootable. At this point
Debian says it's unable to make the system bootable and that I'll
need to use a boot floppy (not possible since there's no floppy drive).

When I shelled out and ran silo manually (silo -C /target/etc/silo.conf)
I got an error on the second stage boot loader. Since the system previously
had a Linux install on it, I tried rebooting and got a warning about old, buggy
PROMs not liking disks larger than 1 Gb.

Tonight I'll try again with:
 - First using fdisk to manually tag sda1 as bootable (I'm sure it is, but didn't check)
 - Creating a small, seperate /boot partition

I've done network installs many times and not encountered this problem before.
Can anyone offer a quick answer to what's going on?

Thanks,

Antti
P.S. The 2.4 rarp stuff is much nicer to use than the 2.2 rarp. :o)