Re: Sarge on a Sparc5

[Eric Nichols <eric@dirwiz.com>]

Unfortunately it gets as far as the busybox errors and that's it.  I let 
it sit for 30 minutes...

Woody would seem to be the next obvious path but my floppy drive is 
busted.  Does anyone have a boot CD image that has the Woody installer 
for SPARC?  I checked the mirrors and all that are there are floppy images.

Many thanks for the quick responses from Robert and Jan!

Schaefer, Robert (PS) wrote:

> I'm not sure about Sarge in particular, but I do know Debian runs fine on a
> Sparc5, as I'm running it on my SparcStation5.  How long did you wait when
> it put out the setting up filesystem message?  I get lots of Unimplemented
> messages, but that doesn't usually stop things from working, you may just
> have to be patient.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Nichols [mailto:eric@dirwiz.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:54 AM
> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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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