Re: installing off of serial console.
Thank you. I did some hunting around and synced up my terminal program
with the parameters I got off a printenv on the OpenBoot prompt, and
discovered my terminal program was using Hardware flow control, and
OpenBoot had none. So I changed my terminal program to no flow control,
and voila! btw, I like the 2.2 installation. Is the ability to grab all
the base and rescue files off of http new in 2.2 or is it just for the
sparc? Either way, it makes it *SO* much easier.
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Matt Rose mattrose@folkwolf.net http://www.folkwolf.net
"I've seen scarier secret police agencies than his completely destroyed
by a Czech hippie playwright with a manual typewriter" Bruce Sterling
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mike Renfro wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:50:25AM -0400, Matt Rose wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to install debian through a sparc serial console?
>
> Yes, at least I've done a test install of potato on a Sparc Classic
> over a 9600bps serial line. All I recall doing was setting the port
> speed and settings in the prom, and booting from there. I did a
> floppy/net install, though, with no tftpboot business at all.
>
> --
> Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
> 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
>
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