My guess is that the kernel in the 2.2 release has a bad bug in the ESP driver which affects the scsi bus. I had this problem when I built my sparc 5 as well. I got around it by sticking the disk in a sparc classic and doing the install there and getting an updated kernel, 2.4.x seems to have good esp support, but sometimes breaks other things, YMWV. I haven't used any of the latest 2.2.x kernels. I also don't know if 2.2r2 fixes this problem.
Good luck Andrew On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:38:54PM -0700, David Demland wrote: > I have a Sparc 5. I am trying to install Debian 2.2 on it. it has two hard > drives, a floppy, and a cdrom. I am trying to install from the cdrom. I think > I may have made a mistake on the disk partition but it seems fine. During the > install of the files I get an error about not being able to untar the first > tar file and it quits. I do not know what I have done wrong. > > Any ideas? > > David Demland
