Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:On 12/29/2015 06:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:Still doesn't work really.Ok, this seems to be a problem with the network configuration of my qemu setup. Can anybody report back who sits in front of real hardware?Damn- can anybody remind me how to get at the OBP settings from inside Solaris? I've got an Netra-20 reserved for this but it's auto-booting and I don't have a USB Sun keyboard with a Stop key.
eepromBooted off pukka CD-RW. This very earliest step was something that Debian has frequently got wrong, so I think it's worth testing.
Several messages "EXT2 superblock magic is wrong" .. Debian installer main menu Language selection inoperative Keyboard selection works for British English Network devices detected Fails to allocate using DHCP (as expected) Am able to enter an IP4 address Correctly does a revers-lookup for the hostname Ditto for domain name Asks for manual entry of the Debian mirrorAbove all subject to the fact that I'm using a keyboard and screen rather than a serial terminal, so there could be details lost in transcription.
I'm stopping there for the moment in the interest of supplying feedback promptly.
Well done everybody :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]