Hi,
Brandon Mercer wrote: Ok, I was able to get the 3.0rc2 iso to install on my V100.
Can you specify exactly were you've downloaded this image from? RC2 is the currently "released" version of the debian-installer for sarge, while 3.0 is the woody version (sarge is 3.1), so I am a bit confused.
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No... but does this flag affect how the machine will behave after the first reboot when it starts setting up the Timezones and stuff... let me know cause this could be it. ThanksBrandon
This flag (ide=nodma) turns off the direct memory access for IDE, which can drop the disk performance quite dramatically. Unfortunately, it seems like V100 is using the infamous CMD64x IDE chipset, which is known to be buggy as hell :-(. The options which I would recommend trying are the 2.6 kernel, which seems to handle this chipset somewhat better. You can boot d-i with 2.6 kernel by using a 2.6 RC2 netboot image from [0]. If you'll manage to complete an install, it would be valuable if you could make the installer logs (stored in /var/log/debian-installer on the newly installed system) available somewhere, and fill out an installation report (see [1] for instructions).
[0] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-sparc/rc2/images/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template Best regards, Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC