Re: Sparc Station 20 and Etch
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 01:26, Andrew, Chris Mr wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> Just subscribed to the list after being off it for 6 months plus.
>
> Has anybody managed to install Etch on A SS20?
>
> I do "boot cdrom", CDROM boots, start the install, all looking good,
> then installer tries to detect my CDROM (that I booted from), and
> prompts me for modules. I have tried all the options, but no luck.
can you clarify what you mean by all the options, I know when I installed to
an e3000 a mo0nth or so ago I had to modprobe esp before the cdrom and disk
drives could be found. So easy to fix I forgot to ever mention it.
Hamish
>
> BTW, I booted the default Etch kernel. It's quite annoying, because my
> Sparc only likes new media, not CDRW's....so getting through some disks.
>
> BTW, I reported this twice as a bug, but no acknowledgement, so not sure
> if being addressed. Next plan could be a Sarge install (no probs),
> then maybe see if "apt-get dist-upgrade" works. I've never tried this.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
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