> Debian for quite awhile, and can get around in it pretty well. What I'm > looking for is an easy step by step on getting the 1+ to boot Deb. The
Things are still a little dodgy, getting a *complete* debian system isn't there yet (ncurses3.4 is missing but some stuff uses it, one of the bfd packages has a trash bfd.info.gz, little things like that), but if you want something to usefully experiment, netbooting is the way to go. Aside from the tar file I got from someone else here of a running system (I don't have an appropriate system to re-serve it from, but I could maybe make bootable zip disks for people if that would be useful -- let me know, though I couldn't actually do any until january) the two most useful places to look were: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/s_linux/faq.html ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/bo/disks-sparc/970328 I'll note that from my experience, tftp+nfs is the way to go; oh, and an SS1+ probably has the old proms (mine does) so you need to actually do a "reset" before rebooting, or it gets confused [blanks the monitor, stops listening to anything] which can make you think that the installation failed when it's just the reset that failed. Supposedly telling the monitor "setenv sunmon-compat? false" will fix this problem but I haven't tried it. Note of course that once you've netbooted, the first thing you want to do is install on an actual disk... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
