The SparcStation 5 have CD-Rom drvie but it's broken (don't mount any CD). The SparcClassic simply don't have Cd-Rom drive. I tried via floppies but it was pain in the neck. I'm just installing it via tftp image. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Holger Wansing <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello, > > Julien Savard <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you have any suggestion exept tweaking old debian installer I'm open > to > > any idea. > > Which installation media do you use? > Do you have the possibility to boot from cdrom? > > In that case, it should be possible to use a full binary installation cd > and install completely from it without requiring a mirror. > Try the 'debian-31r8-sparc-binary-1.iso' from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/sparc/iso-cd/ > and perform the install, let's say only installing the 'standard > system' task. > > With this system, you should be able to compile your own kernel or > install more packages (you could of course download the other cd images > from above url and use them to install additional packages). > > > > Holger > > -- > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Created with Sylpheed 2.5.0 > under DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 5.0.0 - L e n n y > Registered LinuxUser #311290 - http://counter.li.org/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >
