Re: sparc installation
Hi Andreas,
At 21:34 27/01/00 +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
hi. i purchased 6 hyndai sparc II dobtec machines for several debian
developers and me, and will try to install debian (once i got an
aui <-> 10baseT connector). my source for instructions ?
creating sparc cd´s failed: no content dir in disks-sparc.
There is an install manual on Debian's web site. I knew quite well Solaris
2 but nothing about Debian and with that document it was pretty easy to
have my Sun box up and running with "slink". The only thing I couldn't make
is a boot floppy. As described in that install file, it is the main source
of problems, and despite several tries, I couldn't boot on it. So I set up
on a Solaris 2.6 box a RARPD and a TFTP server (as quite well described in
the Debian doc), booted my system (Sun IPX) over the network, than used NFS
to install the "base" file. From there I used the excellent dpkg/dselect
software to get what I wanted from the internet.
I don't know if the CD install works fine, but the TFTP + NFS install is great.
Hope that helps !
Georges
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