Bug#496945: Sun Microsystems Sunfire V100 (Successful - Lenny Beta2 Installer / Business Card CD)

[Adam Garside <asg@gimp.shacknet.nu>]

> Could you try with a daily built images and see if any of the issues you
> mentioned are still affecting the installer?

I reinstalled this morning with the following:

  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/lenny_d-i/20080902-2/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-businesscard.iso

The install kernel still hung after loading the CD driver. Rebooting and
chosing 'install ide=nodma' again allowed the install to proceed.

Configuration of network interfaces again failed due to loading the 'dmfe'
driver instead of 'tulip'. Dropping to the shell and removing 'dmfe' and
re-installing 'tulip' again allowed the install to proceed.

These v100s are really junky so I don't expect much if anything can be
done. I really just wanted to get the install report and workarounds
in the archive for future reference.

-- asg