Re: Debian 5.05 installation problem

[Howard Eisenberger <howarde@gmx.net>]

On 2010-08-17, Negib Sherif wrote:

> I am trying to install Debian 5.05 version on Sparc V440 headless 
> server with serial connection and the courser freezes on the 
> installation menu. Anyone had similar problem and solution for it.
> I did not have any problem to install Ubuntu 6.10 on Sparc V440 which 
> uses Debian installation code except the network card, cassini, that 
> came with it did not work and managed the NIC to work with 3com card.  

I had a similar problem with a Sun Ultra AXe. I believe that that
version of Ubuntu uses something like kernel 2.6.18. I ended up
installing FreeBSD.

Regards,

Howard E.