Re: SunBlade 2000 fails to netboot

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Ben Collins wrote:

> > > http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > This tftpboot image booted just fine, but when it got time to install 
> > the kernel and driver modules from the network, the default download URL of:
> > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/
> > fails with the message:
> >
> > Host: http://http.us.debian.org:80
> > File:
> > debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sparc64/images-2.88/rescue.bin
> > wget: server returned error 404: HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found^M
> >
> > This is pretty much (exactly?) the same error message I got from Ben's 
> > original link that I mentioned in my first post.
> >    
>
> That's because you have to use the phunnypharm.org URL for downloading the
> kernel/driver images.
>
>  
Yea!! The URL

http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/

seems to be working.

Shouldn't these links be incorporated into the official stable repositories/documentation since the official stuff doesn't work?

Thanks, Ben! You've rescued me again this year!

--
Kent