Hi, I have been able to pick up a Sparcstation 4. In the long run I intend to use it as a Linux server (or maybe on of the BSDs). For now I would like to try Solaris. Never touched/never seen it. I spent many hours this evening to get the Openboot screen in a terminal on my Linux desktop. After that I spent quite some time on setting up networking to serve the SS the Debian boot image. I am happy to say that I can now install Debian once I acquire the complete base-system. I have already downloaded three ISO-images for a Solaris 9 install. I can't burn images to cd, so I to mounted the ISO-files from the harddrive with -o loop. Apart from a few scripts there is not much I can see. Is my download corrupt or is it impossible to read these images from Linux? I have read some of the Solaris docs concerning Install servers. As I understand it you need a Solaris system to create an Install server. Is that correct? Is it not possible to boot the Sparcstation and start the Solaris installation by using Linux as an Install server? I am sorry if I offend anyone on this list by asking these questions. It's just that I don't know about all the usual places in regards to Solaris and Sun hardware. Bob
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