Re: Floppy based install of Debian-Sparc
> 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.
Nasty...I wonder what went wrong with that last set of boot-floppies :/
Anyway, you can download the rescue.bin and driver-1.bin, write those to a
floppy, and the rest can be done via the internet (or local NFS if you
wish to download base2.2.tgz aswell).
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