No Trouble installing Debian on a SunBlade 100
Thanks to this mailing list here is what you do:
Maybe you want to try installing the new image fisrt(Step 2). If it does
not work do 1 and then 2 and you are cool.
1) Upgrade to latest OBP
Full instructions and patch :
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBlade100/SunBlade100.html
2) Follow instructions:
http://www.de-brauwer.be/docs/debian_on_sun.html
And then download new image from instead from the location the
instructions say:
http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/
I used tftp image and all the old problems where dissapearred.
Luckily this phunnyfarm site appeared and looks like that all the latest
sparc, from auric , are there now.Since auric is down.
I had many problems with SunBlade100. Now most of the probs are solved.
Beware of how you will partition your disk. SILO has some probs with
boot images located after the 1G point .
So I have a /boot at hda1 (20MB) and / at hda2 (800MB) and the rest all
over the disk.
Hope this helps
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 07:37, Greg wrote:
> I apologize if this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer on
> Google or the list group archives from the past year.
>
> I have bought the sparc Debian cd's for 3.01 R1 from AACDS.com and attempted
> to install them on a SunBlade 100. On my SunBlade the OBP version is 4.0.45
> 2001/02/08 and the POST version is 1.2.6 2000/08/30. It has over a half Gig
> of RAM and a 30 GB HD. I have attempted to install by getting to the prom
> and typing in "boot cdrom". The install starts out fine and then stops with
> a message about missing MMU memory or such (I cannot recall the exact
> words) - and that is as far as I have gone. This happened on 3 install
> attempts. Solaris 9 and OpenBSD 3.4 have run fine on the machine so I think
> the hw is ok.
>
> It seems to me from Googling that there is a problem with the Sun prom and
> Debian. In some instances folks have said to upgrade the prom and in others
> they have said not to upgrade. I can upgrade using Patch-ID# 111179-08
> Jul/24/2003 to version OBP: 4.10.3 created 2003/05/02 and POST: 2.0.1
> 2001/08/23 . My question is if I do this will Debian install from the CD's
> ? will there be a sparc R2 coming out soon ? is a net install my only way
> of getting Debian on the box ?
>
> Any hints/pointers/etc would be appreciated. I have just finished my first
> Debian install on an old beater pc (i386) just to see what Debian looks like
> and I am impressed with Debian (even if KDE does not work and I have to use
> gnome). I am currently using RH 7.3 (soon to be retired), Suse, and OpenBSD
> and I am hoping I can replace them all with Debian - starting with my
> SunBlade.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Greg
>
>
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