Re: SunBlade 2000 fails to netboot
Kent West wrote:
Ben Collins wrote:
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.
Oops; when it got to downloading the base system, the default URL is
http://www.phunnypharm.org/debian
and it complains that the server was unavailable or contained no Release
file.
So I tried it again, and pointed it to
http://www.debian.org/debian
and to
http://us.debian.org/debian
with the same results. Rather than keep up this hit&miss method, any
clue what should go here?
Thanks!
Oh, wait.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
worked. Never mind.
Sort of. It "hung" at the progress bar, with no progress shown, and I
was just about to add this info to this posting, when after about 3 or 4
minutes, the progress bar filled up with yellow and I thought "Yea!",
but then the installer routine looked like it started over, with the
first welcome screen saying stuff like "Welcome to Debian 3.0.r2(?).
This is the (somewhat inaccurately labeled) boot-floppies image blah
blah blah". When I hit "Continue" it jumped to the "Install Base Image"
portion of the install, this time having a full Debian URL, which now
seems to be working. I'm watching the yellow of the progress bar creep
across the screen. Seems I'm making progress.
(I'm writing all of this mostly for the archives.)
--
Kent
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