RE: Problem installing Debian 3.0r0 on Sun Ultra 5

["John Rumball" <john@jerumball.com>]

Jonathan and Peter,

Thank you for your replies.

When I try "/boot/sparc64" at the boot prompt, it looks good at the
beginning, but then ends a few seconds later with a kernel panic message and
wanting to scream!
When I try typing just "rescue" at the boot prompt, the installation process
begins as it should, I guess, which is great.

I guess my question now is, what is the difference between the "rescue"
method versus the standard "press enter" method of beginning the
installation?

Thanks again for your help in getting me started with Debian on Sparc.


John Rumball, CCNA

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan [mailto:debian@netjunky.com]
Sent: December 10, 2002 12:04 PM
To: john@jerumball.com
Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Problem installing Debian 3.0r0 on Sun Ultra 5

> I have an Ultra 5 on which I am trying to install Debian 3.0r0 (woody)
from
> a bootable CD, which I downloaded last week using the jigdo method.
> After I press, "enter" at the "boot:" prompt, I get an error saying:
> "Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz  (Unknown isofs error)".

John,

I'm not sure why this hasn't been fixed, but the boot image is not gzipped
on the cd.

Check the CD for a file /boot/sparc64.

If its there, at the boot: prompt, type   /boot/sparc64   and hit enter.

HTH,
Jonathan