On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > I have a preliminary ISO for sparc installs available. This ISO only > contains the disk sets and should be bootable on any of the supported > systems (sun4c, sun4d, sun4m, sun4u). I'm toying around with how to do > this best. This CD actually boots the isofs as the live filesystem, so > the CD is actually mounted as / > > Let me know if this works for you. It uses the same sparc images as in the > archive right now (2.2.8-2000-03-09). It's about 55megs. Note, this will > install the base system, you will have to use other methods (like apt or > dselect) to install anything extra. > > ftp://marcus.debian.net/pub/debian/disks-sparc/ > > Ben
Well, I've tried this ISO on my IPX and my SLC and got the same results from both. The welcome screen comes up telling me I should say whether I have an IDE CDROM or SCSI. I suppose that's not silly if the Ultras are supported by this disk... But, when I pick 's' it comes up with: cannot find /boot/sun4cdm/linux Heck, it says this when I try 'i' or 'linux'. And I can't select the 'scsi' option SILO lists because it takes the first 's' and tries that image. 'o' produces: 'FIXME: need info on device naming' Both of these machines are sun4c, and I don't have another arch I can try currently... but it seems more fundamental than that. --Kurt
