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Re: Netra X1 install?



On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:10:06AM -0400, Steve Haavik wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > Try download the deb from
> >
> > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-sparc-2.4/
> >
> > Make sure you get the latest sun4u image. Do this:
> >
> > dpkg-deb --extract <file.deb> deb-tmp/
> >
> > Then get the vmlinuz out of deb-tmp/boot/
> >
> > This might contain the same problem.
> 
> I get the same problem. I think TILO may be assuming sun4cdm when I try
> this on a Sparcstation-5.

Of course it assumes sun4cdm, when you are booting from a sun4m machine
:) (sun4cdm is shorthand for sun4c/sun4d/sun4m)

> I'll try to get Debian on an Ultra and see if I can get it to work there.

Now that I can attest to working. I've tested it extensively. Don't use
the official woody CD's though, unless you look through the mailing list
archive for the sparc64.gz problem.

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