Re: Problems installing Debian on a Sparcstation 4
Hi,
I always had problems installing Etch on an SS20, due to the ESP
problem. The ESP module was re-written by Spot Calloway (Redhat) over
at Aurora Linux, and I managed to get that distro to install
perfectly. The distro is RPM based and not GNU/Debian.
To get around the Etch problem, I installed Sarge and didn't apply
updates, as they broke my system. A new update of Sarge has been
announced, but I'm yet to find an ISO.
Unfortunately you will always be fighting an uphill battle trying to
get GNU/Linux to run on sparc (32 bit), and I believe that from Lenny,
32 bit is no longer supported.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Chris :-(.
On 12/01/2008, Peter Rohrer <peter.rohrer@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Today I tried to install Debian Etch on a Sparcstation 4 (110MHz CPU,
> 96MB Ram) with a 36GB harddrive. I had installed Etch earlier on that
> system using a 2 GB Harddrive and wanted to upgrade to a bigger disk.
> Unfortunately the installation always failed during hardware detection
> at the step "Loading Module esp" (This is at 2% progress). The system
> froze and I was unable to switch to another virtuel terminal.
> I booted the system over the net using the boot image from
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc32/netboot/2.6/
>
> I tried to run the installer on a sparcstation 10, the hardware
> detection was working fine on that system.
>
> Is there some known problem with the Installation of etch on the SS4?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
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