Sarge on a Sparc5
I recently inherited a SparcStation 5 from a friend (96meg memory 2gig
drive). I have a very old version of SuSE running on it with openldap
and I wanted to experiment with debian. I tried loading woody by floppy
but found the floppy drive is broken.
So I moved on and downloaded the latest cdrom-mini.iso (3/15/04) and
started the install. I selected the boot install from the menu and
watched it autodetect my hardware etc.
The entire install halted with the following lines:
Setting up filesystem please wait....
busybox[8]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[9]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[11]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[12]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
init[10]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[13]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Needless to say I'm stuck. Is there a parameter I need to put in before
boot or will this work at all on this old box?
Many Thanks
Eric
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