Re: Floppy based install of Debian-Sparc
Just last week I installed via 2 floppy and internet on an Ultra 1
behind a firewall. No problems here. Most of the problems I've had
or seen are with older prom versions on sun4m and sun4c. The sun4u
installs are quite smooth lately on both desktop Ultras and
Enterprise servers.
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:14:38AM +0200, Mads Hugo Pedersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>
> Ben> On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:37:59AM -0400, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> >> I installed Debian Sparc initially by purchasing the CDs and
> >> installing from the CDs. I have since loaned the CD drive to a
> >> friend. (I could get it back, easily enough.) After I installed I
> >> updated to frozen and an SMP kernel. I have another Sparc (only one
> >> CPU) that I would like to experiment with. I have my own network
> >> for all practical purposes.
> >>
> >> What is the simplest way to install Debian on a Sparc without a
> >> CD-ROM. I would need to reformat or at least redo the layout of
> >> hard disks. I could download images to another machine a PC, the
> >> abovementioned Debian Sparc installation or a PC Debian
> >> Installation, or RedHat. I'm curious because, while I prefer
> >> Debian in most respects to RedHat, I do see RedHat's ability to
> >> install over the Internet from a single floppy as a great plus.
>
> Ben> You can install Debian over the internet with 2 floppies, or even
> Ben> easier (same with RedHat) boot from a tftp server using the tftp
> Ben> images. On the Debian box this is as simple as "apt-get install
> Ben> tftpd".
>
> I tried this yesterday, but with no luck :-/ I used the tftpboot.img
> from boot-floppies 2.2.12 on my SPARC IPC. When the installation process
> need to download the drivers.tgz it fails. On the Debian site there is
> no such file, but a driver-1.bin.
>
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