On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:55:53 -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Installation Steps > ------------------ > > It didn't ask for language just country "based on your language choice". > > It didn't ask for keyboard.
And with good reason. ISTR you can't boot a sparc headless without unplugging both the monitor and keyboard. so probably the selector did the right thing and detected that there was really no keyboard? > DHCP worked fine. For once in history... *rolleyes* > No guided partitioning option at the beginning of the partitioning. Were there two disks in the machine? > No xfs or jfs filesystems. Once we stabilize our bootloader, I will allow this to happen using an initrd to load modules for these filesystems so we can pivot to an xfs root. > And then it took a LONG time to get everything installed. But it worked. Hah, yeah.. base-installer? Go and play a few games of ping-pong, then watch a LOTR movie of your choice, and it's still not done.. > Base config prompted me for keyboard. But keymap families had no names > (no qwerty), I chose blindly. That I don't know about. > So: SUCCESS!!! We have an OK for netboot+Sparc32. What really needs work is sparc64 CD boots. That requires some really experienced sparc hackers. -- Joshua Kwan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
