Re: Debian netboot on a SunFire v20z

[Bjoern Boschman <bjoern.boschman@jbhosting.de>]

Hi,

I have sucessfully installed debian-amd64 on the same hardware but I 
also was not able to download any packags while the debian-installer was 
running. Therefor I downloaded the latest netinstall which dows not 
really needs to download any packages. After installing this way I was 
able to a deb mirrors on the running system.

regards
bjoern

Michael Madden schrieb:

> Has anyone gotten a netboot install for amd64 working on a Sun SunFire
> V20z?  I'm using the netboot from 12/21/2004.  It boots from the cd,
> detects my Broadcom card, loads the tg3 module, configures the network,
> obtains an IP address, netmask, gateway, and DNS servers from my DHCP server.
> It then asks me to select a mirror (I have tried ftp.us.debian.org, 
> mirrors.kernel.org, and numerous other foreign mirrors), and it gets the 
> following error:
>
> The installer failed to download a file from the mirror. This may be
> a problem with your network, or with the mirror.  You can choose to 
> retry the download, select a different mirror, or cancel and choose
> another installation method.
>
> I know the network card and the network are fine.  I recently installed
> Solaris 10 b72 and Ubuntu on this server and connected to the network
> without a hitch.  I've tried retrying, changing numerous ftp/http mirrors, 
> and I always get the same error.  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike
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