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Re: installing debian on sparc



On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:50:52PM +1000, Mario Zuppini wrote:
> Hey people, need urgent help
> 
> trying to install debian on 3 of our sparcserver10's here, and the installation part is fine
> but when it goes to reboot, it wont boot, comes up with error at a certain byte of the hdd
> 
> but if i change the hard disk parititoning byte changes, leading me to beleive it was a hard drive partitioning error.
> So i've tried every known combination to man in my partitioning.
> 
> Has anyone had any success at all installing debian (any versions) onto a sparcserver 10 ?

    I've installed woody on a SPARCserver 20 (several times), and I have to
enter parameters at the SILO prompt every time I boot it.  Other than that,
it runs fine, but no matter how small the drive or how I partition it, I have
to specify the SILO options at the prompt.

    - Kurt



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