As you adviced me, I have tried both netinstall images, with kernel
2.4.27 and 2.6.8. With 2.4.27 the installation procedure was good
chosing language, but when it was tried to detect the hardware, the
computer didn't find the cdrom and remained frozen. With image of kernel
2.6.8, for the first election, the language, the keyboard doesn't work.
El jue, 07-04-2005 a las 09:33 +0200, Wiktor Wandachowicz escribió:
>
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Juan Antonio [ISO-8859-1] A?el Cabanelas wrote:
>
> > Dear Mr. Wandachowicz,
> >
> > I have found a mail from you to debian-boot list about the installation
> > of Debian GNU/Linux in Ultrasparc Sunblade 150. It was about the
> > keyboard. I have the same problem and I have tried a lot of different
> > iso images, so I would like to know if you have had success with the
> > installation and which image you have used.
> >
> > If you have had success with another Linux distribution I would like to
> > know it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
> The installation process is currently buggy for SunBlade 150.
> But my efforts with resolving the issues pressed the matter forward,
> and the problems are being resolved.
>
> Using a lot of my time and gaining experience bit after bit I was
> able to do a clean install, however. But this process was complicated
> and I'm not sure if I can recommend it to you.
>
> Some problems plagued (plagues?) debian-installer CD's:
> (1) there were missing kernel modules on such CD, resulting in non-working
> USB-keyboard. This has been resolved, I think.
> (2) there is some problem with kernel configuration and/or version,
> which renders the installer to be unable to detect and mount any IDE
> drives (cd/hdd). Thus one cannot continue the installation, because
> installer components are located on the same CD, which can't be mounted.
> This has been reported many times an I'm waiting until it will be
> resolved too.
> (3) In the main menu there can be black boxes instead of some national
> characters. There is a workaround for this, however. You can read about
> this in the "Debian Installer Parameters" section in "Debian Sarge
> installation Manual" at:
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch05s02.html
>
> Recent ISO images have the problem (1) resolved, while the problem (2)
> still exist. If you ask the developers long enough [nicely!], the second
> one will perish too :-) And we all be happy installing Debian od Blades.
>
> I already got some answers to the problem (2), which can be found at:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg00048.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg00052.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg00092.html (***)
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg00062.html
>
> Of special interest may be the post marked as (***) where the poster
> suggests to do a netinstall with 2.6 kernel. I didn't have enough time
> to do this, but if you want, try it and post the results on the
> debian-boot list. Alternatively, ask for support there.
>
> The netboot images can be found at:
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-sparc/current/images/
>
> The CD images itself can be found at:
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/rc3/
>
> You can also be even more specific and search for the answer on another
> mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc
> (simply send an email to "debian-sparc (at) lists.debian.org")
>
> If you are still interested in installing Debian, I would recommend
> doing a netboot, too. It's quite easy once you know all the details.
> Read more about it here:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/04/msg00004.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/04/msg00014.html
> http://www.de-brauwer.be/docs/debian_on_sun.html
>
> You don't really need to install TFTP server on another Blade running
> Debian. On Solaris 9 there is such a server installed by default and
> you can easily use it to boot another machine.
>
> Once in a while there were some boot images on the www.phunnypharm.org
> but now I couldn't see them anymore. This was the first place we got
> the netboot image which let us install working Debian woody on Blade.
> The original images didn't work at that time (over a year ago).
>
> Hope this helps a bit,
> Wiktor Wandachowicz
>
>
> PS.
> Sorry for cross-posting, but I thought this may be important right now
--
Juan Antonio Añel Cabanelas
Área de Física de la Tierra (FT2DC)
Facultade de Ciencias de Ourense
Ourense ESPAÑA
http://ft2dc.uvigo.es
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