Re: installing debian on sparc
What parameters do you have to enter? I have several Sparc20's and Sparc10's
I'd like to run on debian.
Steve Carter
carter@sncarter.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt D. Starsinic" <kstar@cpan.org>
To: "Mario Zuppini" <tribune@cybersol.com.au>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: 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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