Trying to install debian on a sparcstation 2 . I downloaded files by binary ftp from ftp.uk.debian.org (using a Unix ftp command and the ftp bin command) and checked that they were the same size as the originals. I got files from
/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4cdm is this the right location? First tried floppy. Got .../images-1.44/rescue.bin , and used rawrite to put it onto a disk. then tried boot floppy The error message says cant read disk label and then something like: cant use sun disk program (this was some time ago) Tried: different disk, different drive, writing disk with dd instead of rawrite: same error. Tried to boot netbsd by same method, that worked. So then I tried to install debian by using tftp. After downloading tftpboot.img from the same directory and putting it onto the tftpd server I do boot net on the sparc. This shows a rapidly increasing series of hex numbers (I assume this is while the sparc is loading the boot file), then TILO booting linux... then it jams apparently for ever. I cannot find anything relevant in TFM. Please any advice? I sent the above to this list a few weeks ago, no reply. Then I saw a message from Ben Collins on topic fixed tftp images available. I downloaded the file he mentioned http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/tftpboot-sun4cdm.img When I try to boot this file I get a different error: illegal instruction So I have been trying to get a file from one of the older versions of debian, but the archive machine does not respond. Is there anybody out there?
