> There is an install manual on Debian's web site. I knew quite well Solaris > 2 but nothing about Debian and with that document it was pretty easy to > have my Sun box up and running with "slink". The only thing I couldn't make > is a boot floppy. As described in that install file, it is the main source > of problems, and despite several tries, I couldn't boot on it. So I set up > on a Solaris 2.6 box a RARPD and a TFTP server (as quite well described in > the Debian doc), booted my system (Sun IPX) over the network, than used NFS > to install the "base" file. From there I used the excellent dpkg/dselect > software to get what I wanted from the internet. > > I don't know if the CD install works fine, but the TFTP + NFS install is > great.
ok, thanks a lot. does anyone know: is there a tar installation method ? with slink i was used to create some dir, untar the base in it and chroot to that new installation - on i386 plattform. doesn´t work any longer with potato on i386, but maybe all it needs is some special commands to fix it ? i have 4 machines with redhat working, and i guess that should help me in installing debian somehow ? or maybe i can use the existing silo/redhat to boot a debian install somehow ? the other machine i have has an sunOS 4.something, and does not boot very much (it tries to get /usr* from some nfs server, and i don´t have that nfs server). any idea what i can do there ? > Hope that helps ! yes, it does. will look at the slink docs. in the worst case, i will install slink and then try to update. regards, andreas
