Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, nate wrote:
> Marlon Ott said:
> > What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with
>
> you got ripped off. new sun blade 100s are going for
> under $900(this was a year ago)
I'm hoping he means a SunBlade 1000, they cost upwards of $3000. I paid
$1100 for a new 100 with a 15" LCD monitor. Well, actually, the company
did not me personally.
> > Well folks.... too bad I cannot load Debian. From the
> > support site's "SunBlade 100" string it appears that I
> > should remove my video card (ROTFLMAO), and type
> > mystical undocumented commands at the SILO prompt
> > while praying.
>
> is the blade listed as compadible? it is a rather
> new piece of hardware, even older versions of solaris 8
> are not compadible with it. I am not suprised debian
> would not load
I have Woody running on a Blade 100. Works fine, except for the floppy.
Something about the floppy being different than other Sun systems. No
driver. I'm using it with KDE on a nice LCD monitor and am quite happy
with it.
You need to flash the firmware to boot from a CD, or else do a network
boot, but it installs fine after that. You also have to select a pc-style
keyboard, as the 100 has a USB keyboard that isn't compatible with the
type 5. If you google around a bit you can find some HOWTO's on the 100's
quirks, but it is eminently doable. I have mine set up to dual-boot with
Solaris 9.
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