Debian on Sun Enterprise 250

[Beavis <pfunix@gmail.com>]

hi guys,

  I'm having some problems with the setup installer for debian 4.0.4a
(etch) for sparc. I tried passing the following on SILO:

SILO Boot

boot: install video:atyfb:off DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text


I was able to successfully load the kernel through this method but for
some weird reason my sun keyboard will all of a sudden go hay-wire. as
soon as i pick the first option that the installer asks for and hit
the (ENTER key) the screen will just keep on scrolling. at first i
thought it's a keyboard issue but I've changed it for the 3rd time and
when im on OpenBOOT i can run the commands without any hassle. If
there is someone that was able to make this to work and would like to
share I would very much appreciate this...


thank you all!

-B