Re: t5120 support?

2008/11/28 david manyé <dmanye@gmail.com>

2008/11/27 Brian Thompson <brian@eng.wayne.edu>

david manyé wrote:

hello,

these days i can "play" with a t5120. i've tried to install lenny rc1 but it complains that, after booting the installer, cannot detect the cdrom.

do you know if is possible to install linux on it?

thanks.

Hi David,

For whatever reason it appears that Sun decided to use USB for the
internal optical interface on the following systems:

Sun Fire X4140
Sun Fire X4150
Sun Fire X4240
Sun Fire X4250
Sun Fire X4450
Enterprise T5120
Enterprise T5140
Enterprise T5240

The first thing I would try would be to attempt a net boot/net install
to avoid the USB issue.

-Brian

thanks brian,

now i can successfully boot the machine but the problem is now the network card: there are 4 nics intel 82571 that, if i'm not wrong, require the e1000e driver and in the boot.img used to boot this driver is missing.

if i knew how to rebuild the boot.img file...

any idea?hello,

now i can successfully boot the machine but the problem is now the network card: there are 4 nics intel 82571 that, if i'm not wrong, require the e1000e driver and in the boot.img used to boot this driver is missing.

if i knew how to rebuild the boot.img file...

i'll post a message on debian-boot ...

any idea? thanks.