Aurora mirrors and Ultra 10 install problem/solution

[p***@bb.com.br]

Hi,

I downloaded the 6 ISO images from the
http://aurora.fedoramirror.net in order to install AL in my ultra-10 box.
After spending some time I could see it was not possible to
install AL-2.99 in my ultra-10 because it is IDE and not SCSI.
Googling a little I discover that I had to boot with "linux
ide=nodma" in order to make it work. But the installation had no progress
(no disk found).
Then, after a couple of days, searching at the aurora mailing list
I saw a email from Karel and Tom "Spot" [1]
that there was a bug about IDE and it will be fixed soon.
Thanks Tom. It is fixed as we can see at the other message here
[2].
However I was confused by the 2.99 directory, I mean:
/pub/linux/fedora/aurora/build-2.99/iso
At the message [2] you point us out to the ISO's fixed. For my
surprise, the ISO's are at /pub/linux/fedora/aurora/corona/sparc/iso are
the good ones and the ISO's at 2.99 directory are the "bad" ISO's!
My question is: Is that possible to replace the 2.99 (bad) ISO's
for the corona (good) ones? In my humble opinion (and for the
experience/pain I had until I discovered the right directory) the ISO's
should be updated ....
Anyway, I am just trying to help and appreciate the good job Tom
is doing. Now, my old ultra-10 has some utility.
Thank you a lot.

[1]: http://lists.auroralinux.org/pipermail/aurora-sparc-user/2007-December/004887.html
[2]: http://lists.auroralinux.org/pipermail/aurora-sparc-user/2008-January/004888.html
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Ulisses de Sousa Penna
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[Bill Randle]

Penna,

Thanks so much for your recent posting to the user's list. As a newcomer
to Aurora, I also downloaded the iso images in the 2.99 directory
thinking they were the latest. The I saw you email in the archives and
downloaded the newer Corona isos. It would be *really* good if something
was said about this in the News section of the website to avoid other
users having the same problem.

On another note - for anyone - now that I have Aurora installed, how do
I get it to boot? This is a Sparc Ultra 10 with two IDE drives. The
Aurora install is on sdb8 (/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7). I tried
"boot disk1:g" from the ok Open Boot prompt, but it comes back and says:

Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot disk1:g

Can't open boot device

I also tried booting the install CD and hitting F5 for Rescue. It just
took me back to the ok prompt after a bit. I was hoping to at least be
able do something like boot "linux ide=nodma root=/dev/sdb8" at some
point in time as a fallback.

-Bill