Yay! With the new boot disks I was finally able to install Debian on my headless Netra. The installation was really smooth. The only flaw I noticed was at the stage "Install OS Kernel and Modules." After picking floppy as the installation type, I was prompted to insert the rescue disk but the root disk which was in there before was not ejected. Happily I had a portable peripheral ejection device (aka paperclip :-) handy and was able to continue. All in all a very minor blemish on an extremely user-friendly piece of work.
Here's a "gotcha" you might want to add to the installation docs. After everything was finished and the system rebooted, solaris cam up again instead of Linux even though I had selected "Boot from hard disk." This is because the PROM was set to boot from partion 3. The problem was easily solved by logging into solaris as root, doing a halt, and then at the PROM prompt. setenv boot-device disk1:h1 nvramrc -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
