Re: Debian on Sun Enterprise 250
I had similar problem with 220r, what I did was to do command line
installation and not load the video drivers. It worked fine with Webmin
and I am using it for a webserver. I just could not get the video card
drivers to load propperly.
Gerry
> 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
>
>
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