Re: [sun]debian

[Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:51 +0200, Eric Rapilly wrote:
> Hi, ladies and gentlemen . I could'nt install Debian on my SUn SPARC
> ULTRA 1, because the crom has benn written with K3B under Fedora core 5,
> i.e with the ISO 9660 format, which unknown by the SUN OS ver 5.5.1. 
If you're looking to install Debian then you shouldn't need to go near
Sun OS.  Just get OpenBoot to boot from CD and install from there.

> Thus, I believe the only thing to do, is to transfer Debian from fedora
> to the sun,
It is possible to install Debian from a running UNIX but I'd advise
against it.  I've seen some very smart people pull this trick and
successfully install over the system they were running but I really
wouldn't recommend trying it.  Installing from CD is buch easier.

>  but for this, I have to install an net between these two
> computerFor this, I nedd your help, because the "ifconfig" man page on
> the SUN OS is very confusing for me . The IP address (inet Address) is
> correct , and in the same net and subnet as the one of the fedora core
> machine. But nevertheless, I can't ping neither "nmap" the sun machine
> from my fedora machine; I believe in missed an option, like "plumb"
> which appaers to be used to associate hm0 device (i;e eth0) to the inet
> address; 
> How to use this option ? and how to enter a gateway ?? many thanks
Networking questions about Sun OS are a little off topic here; plus IMHO
that's the wrong direction is you just want to do a basic install.  Have
a read of the rather spiffing install guide - it's pretty straight
forward.

Cheers,
 - Martin