Re: Sun Blade 100 installation
On March 15, 2005, Daniel_Lönn wrote:
> Well, why would you need a CD of Woody that is a "mini" or "network
> install cd"? Just download the official sparc one, just one. Then do
> network installation. No netboot, no problem. I would never, ever use
> the mini-iso's netboot -unofficial things. Never, ever.
Right. I haven't used anything unofficial. The netboot images I have been using are official, for sarge. They are release candidates or daily builds.
I'm looking for the same thing for woody, but it doesn't appear to exist. And I simply do not know how to obtain a woody installation CD for sparc, and the install manual is no help. There are only two sections listed in the table of contents that even include "CD" in the title: "Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM Sets" and "Booting from a CD-ROM." Taking these in reverse order, "Booting from a CD-ROM" explains how to boot from a CD-ROM (which I can already do) and encourages me to purchase a CD set from a vendor. (That might be an option, but I'd like to burn my own first since I don't need the full set or even any packages beyond enough to let me install over the network, and I'll bet most vendors don't do sparc anyway.) The other section, "Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM Sets," also encourages me to purchase CDs, but it does link to the Debian CD page (http://www.debian.org/CD/) for alleged information on making my own.
The Debian CD page has five options:
* Download a minimal bootable CD image: this is exactly what I am trying to do, but there are no such images for woody/sparc, and the images for sarge/sparc do not work. This option seems to be encouraged on the page so that bandwidth is not wasted.
* Buy finished Debian CD-ROMs (again)
* Download CD images with jigdo
* Download CD images with BitTorrent
* Download CD images using HTTP or FTP: this option is described to be quite a waste of bandwidth, since full CD images are downloaded when many people (such as myself) just need enough to get up and running with a network install
I hope this clarifies why I would want to use a netboot image: all other options are going to waste a ton of bandwidth. And also the netboot images for sarge are not unofficial. I'm just surprised that I can't get the same thing for woody. Actually, I'm assuming that I CAN get the same thing for woody and that someone on this list can explain it to me since I cannot yet figure it out. Am I supposed to use jigdo to build a minimal network install CD? (jigdo lets you choose what to include on the CD, right? How do I know what to include?)
I have never had to download a full-sized ISO before to install Debian on other architectures, even in the days of potato.
So if I download a full ISO, say http://debian-cd.rutgers.edu/images/sparc/debian-30r1-sparc-binary-1.iso , and burn it, I can boot from that disk and use it to do a network install? There's not a scaled down version designed for network install, anywhere?
Thanks,
jdb
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