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Re: Sun Enterprise 250



On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:03:34AM -0600, Ben Reubenstein wrote:
> HELLO ALL!
> 
> This past weekend a fallen .com allowed our IT department to get a Sun 
> Enterprise 250 Server.  It currently has Solaris installed on it and we 
> plan to back that system up.  But our ultimate goal is to install debian 
> linux. 
> 
> Our biggest hurdle so far was finding a keyboard for the thing!
> 
> I am very familiar with linux but only on intel machines.   I also have 
> only used red hat and mandrake with their very friendly graphical 
> interfaces.
> 
> As a newbie I must ask:
> 
> How much trouble is it to get debian running on this sun box?
> 
> What are the necessary ISOs to obtain?
> 
> What is everyone using thier sun box for?
> 

I'd suggest a serial console. Might be easier.

For a decent net install, use:

http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso.bz2

You can also netboot using the sun4u/tftpboot.img at the same location
above.

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