hi, finally i was able to boot my box. but the problems go on...
i have installed the Xsun as xserver and i want to use a network wide true-type font server (xfs-xtt). but the doc tells me that i don't need any configuration for Xsun. so how can i tell Xsun that it have to ask for the fonts on an other server?? the only thing that X tells me is that the font folders doesn't exist. on an intel box i can give the font server over the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. but on sparc??? also as i told, finally i was able too boot my box so those was the problems and the solutions: - the server must have enabled rarp, arp and tftp that the sun box will be able to fetch the kernel. - the kernel must be on a.out format the the sun box can execute it. so you have to gunzip the default debian kernel and then make a aout file with the elftoaout utility. - the standard debian kernel does not include kernel-ip-config so that the linux kernel will fetch the net configs from bootp or a dhcp server. so for first your first boot you have to give the parameters "boot net ip=<ip-addr> nfsroot=<server-addr>:<folder-name>". if you only give the nfsroot it will give you the following error: "RPC: sendmsg returned error 51". - so after starting your debian linux compile your new kernel with enabled nfsroot, kernel-auto-conf and more..... and don't forget to make a new aout kernel with the elftoaout utility! also thanks to all that helped me in the past few days and nights.... thanks in advance, regards, alias m.nine.six.
