RE: Problems Installing Debian on a Sparc2
Thanks to those who've helped.
I think there must be something wrong with my CD ROM, I can install from
floppies without problems. After the "partitioning" section, the "install
Linux" section allows for varoius media but when I choose CD ROM nothing
happens, ie the light doesn't even come on and you can't hear/feel the CD
spinning, however doing a probe-scsi from the PROM and during the SILO
initialisation, you can see the CD ROM detected.
Either way, I'll get it happening off the floppies and then try and figure
how to do it from the CDs. Or if there's some way of installing all the apps
from the install CDs once the actual system is set up, then I'll do that. I
can't be stuffed hand installing Gbs worth of software.
One more question, why is there a /boot mount ? Admittedly I've only ever
used RedHat before so maybe this is standard but I've never seen it.
Anyway, thanks people for the help.
Damian Del Campo
Software Engineer, SAGRN Project
E-mail Damian.DelCampo@team.telstra.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jbiddier@usra.edu [SMTP:jbiddier@usra.edu]
> Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 9:58 pm
> To: Del Campo, Damian
> Cc: 'debian-sparc@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: Re: Problems Installing Debian on a Sparc2
>
>
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> Off hand, try it. I could be wrong (very wrong) for I have not installed
> Debian on a sparc WS 2 in this way before (I have only used the "all
> floppies" and the "CD only" methods). This method of installation
> (floppy and CD) is the "standard" for many PC installations (all Linux
> distributions and not just Debian).
>
> You might think about opening the box and attaching a hard drive (any
> SCSI drive) in one SCSI channel (SCSI ID 3) and then putting the SCSI CD
> in the other SCSI channel (SCSI ID 6) and then attempt to install (all
> the other external devices removed. Off hand, they don't *seem* to be
> the problem, but you can always add them later and simplicity is always
> easier to work with.). This has worked for me, but I don't know all the
> issues and hardware considerations you are facing.
>
> Though Debian is my favorite Linux distribution (very small and stable.
> No bloated nonsense like many other distributions) and this advice seems
> very contradictory to this mailing list, but you may try another
> distribution to rule out (or in) any hardware considerations. It can't
> hurt. But at some point you will come back to Debian - they always come
> back ;-).
>
> You may also take a look at some documentation on OpenBoot (i.e. the
> PROM). Remember, you inherited that machine, you don't know what the
> person before you did.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> --J
>
> PS
> I will be unsubscribing from this mailing list; too much E-mail. I am on
> "overload".
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> "Del Campo, Damian" wrote:
> >
> > If I have the CDs, ie all three of them, can't I use the rescue, root,
> > driver1, driver2 floppies to get it to a stage where I can tell it to do
> the
> > rest off of the CDs ????
> >
> > (I haven't really worked out any networking for this comp yet so
> downloading
> > the base while installing doesn't sound promising.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Damian Del Campo
> > Software Engineer, SAGRN Project
> > E-mail Damian.DelCampo@team.telstra.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: jbiddier@usra.edu [SMTP:jbiddier@usra.edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2001 10:15 pm
> > > To: Ben Collins
> > > Cc: Del Campo, Damian; 'debian-sparc@lists.debian.org'
> > > Subject: Re: Problems Installing Debian on a Sparc2
> > >
> > > Ben Collins wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:29:03AM -0400, jbiddier@usra.edu wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Debian can be installed from floppies (14 of them I believe? You
> will
> > > > > need the sun4cdm floppies + base floppies). Do this if all else
> fails
> > > > > (here do a "boot floppy" at the OK prompt.)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Actually, you should just need rescue+root+drivers. The base2_2.tgz
> can
> > > > be downloaded during the install.
> > > >
> > > Yes. I should have been more specific. You need the rescue.bin
> (sun4cdm
> > > [for a Sparc WS 2]), driver-1.bin + driver-2.bin (again sun4cdm
> > > versions) and the root.bin (base). Again, Ben is right, you don't
> really
> > > need all the other floppies (base) if you have download access. All
> > > floppies are available at any Debian Sparc download sites (as I'm sure
> > > you know).
> > >
> > > In US try:
> > >
> > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/current/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --J
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