Re: debian woody problems with sparc20
Hi.
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 17:36, Karsten Topp wrote:
> Hi Newsgroup.
> Somehow two old Sparc's dropped into my hands and because Solaris8 is such
> a bloat, I would give Linux a try.
> First I tried SuSE/Sparc, only to find out that the latest supported
> version is 7.3, which is quite old and... it misses importantn things like
> sound and java(sic!)
> Then I found debian 3.0 and i d/L all the iso's and burned them nicely on
> cd's.
The better choice for Sparc ...
>
> But whenever I tried to install by booting from CD the system tries to
> locate the root on NFS, then on fdd and then panics.
> Too bad, I do *not* have a floppy in that Sparc's.
> Something i missed? Due documentation did *not* mention any usefule
> bootparameters.
I installed Debian on one of my SS20's last week - I had the same problem. I
have two sets of CDs: 3.0R0 and 3.0R1 - none of them worked. The Sparc even
didn't accept the requested root floppy when booting from CD.
So I booted from rescue floppy, put in the root floppy, selected CD as
installation media - and everything worked fine ...
But CD boot/install was no problem on my Ultra's (3.0R1, 3.0R0 is a little
bit tricky), and as far as I remember (I installed it a while ago) on
Sparcstation 1+ and IPX.
Something wrong with the ISOs?
Regards,
Hartwig
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