RE: DEBIAN 3.0 on a SPARC Classic X

["woodsend" <woodsend@bigpond.net.au>]

This isn't a bad idea (ie it would work), but I really wanted these machines
to be stand-alone.

cheers
Jonathan Pratt

-----Original Message-----
From: waldner@fsck.waldner.priv.at
[mailto:waldner@fsck.waldner.priv.at]On Behalf Of Robert Waldner
Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2002 17:08
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: DEBIAN 3.0 on a SPARC Classic X



On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:42:01 +0930, "woodsend" writes:
>I got hold of a couple of Sparc Classic X's which I've converted to
>"Classic"s by modifying the contents of the NVRAM. Now I can boot from a
>CDROM.
<...>
>For all intents and purposes the boot sequence has hung.
<...>
>any ideas on how to overcome this problem?

If you have another machine on the LAN you can try booting via TFTP.

cheers,
&rw
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