Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

[Kevin Stabel <kevin.stabel@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I had a problem with the driver, but i disconnected the second loop to the drive backplane, and it worked.

It's a long shot, but i guess you could try?

Kind Regards,

-Kevin

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:10 PM Rick Leir <rleir@leirtech.com> wrote:

Thomas
Does your machine have FiberChannel disks (FC-AL?)

There was a problem with the driver the last time I tried to install. That was a year ago, and I was too busy to fix it. My guess is that there is an endian problem in whatever boot code that calls the driver. I say that because the driver is old and has never been changed.

You might want to try using an ATA or SCSI disk temporarily. Please let me know how it goes.
Cheers
Rick

On December 17, 2018 2:27:46 AM EST, Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> wrote:

A few months back I made a half hearted try at installing Debian on a
Sun Blade 1000. The installer failed instantly and I deferred this in
favor of more immediately pressing matters, but now will have time to
spend on it.

I have found debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (apparent date 5/18/18
and debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (apparent date 4/4/18) at
cdimage.debian.org. Is there a later version of either?

Thanks in advance
Tom Dial

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