Re: [sun]debian

[John Zbesko <johnzbesko@alum.mit.edu>]

This may be obvious, but make sure if you are directly connecting the
two computers together that you use a cross-over ethernet cable. If you
use a hub, switch or router between the two machines, regular ethernet
cables are fine. But between two computers, one set of paired wires must
"cross-over" to a different position, i.e. so the "out" signal from one
computer communicates with the "in" set on the other. 

BTW, your description of what is wrong with the CDROM doesn't sound
quite right. I've used K3B to burn images for my Ultra 1 that work fine-
but remember, the CDROM should be burned at the lowest speed possible.
Don't exactly know why, but this has been written about time after
time. 

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. 
> Thus, I believe the only thing to do, is to transfer Debian from fedora
> to the sun, 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
> 
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