Re: sparc installation
> 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.
ok, thanks a lot.
does anyone know: is there a tar installation method ?
with slink i was used to create some dir, untar the base in it and chroot
to that new installation - on i386 plattform. doesn´t work any longer with
potato on i386, but maybe all it needs is some special commands to fix it ?
i have 4 machines with redhat working, and i guess that should help me in
installing debian somehow ? or maybe i can use the existing silo/redhat to boot
a debian install somehow ?
the other machine i have has an sunOS 4.something, and does not boot very
much (it tries to get /usr* from some nfs server, and i don´t have that nfs
server). any idea what i can do there ?
> Hope that helps !
yes, it does. will look at the slink docs.
in the worst case, i will install slink and then try to update.
regards, andreas
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