RE: Debian on a Sun Blade 1500

[ryan_terry@adp.com]

Don't give up quite yet Todd.  You may wanna try the latest d-i images for sarge.  I had luck with them on my SunBlade 1500.

 

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

 

I used the July 8th image, but I think the images that have been released since them are functional.

 

The only issue I had was with the keybaord mapping.  I had to wing it through the first part of the install, but within 30 minutes I had a functional sarge install!

 

Ryan Terry

ADP Benefit Services

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From: Todd Echterling [mailto:Todd.Echterling@millersville.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:55 AM
To: 'debian-sparc@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Debian on a Sun Blade 1500

Good Afternoon everyone,

 

I hope someone can help.

I am trying to install SPARC Debian on a Sun Blade 1500. I have tried debian-30r1-sparc-binary-1.iso, debian-30r2-sparc-binary-1.iso, the net install sarge disk, and the businesscard image, but none will boot. It comes up with the screen welcoming you to Debian and press Enter to start the install. I press enter start the and the machine displays this message "loading initial ramdisk" and then reboots. I have tried other linux on it and they don't even get that far. If anybody can help it would be much appreciated.

 

Some of the images successfully allocate the ram, load the initial ramdisk and then just lock up when it says “ remapping the kernel”

 

Please help! I want Debian on the box. I may have to give up and use that “G” linux…  uggghhhh

 

Thanks,

Todd E Echterling

System Administrator

Computer Science Department

Millersville University