The Blade 100 is standalone, not networked (it has a modem)... Thanks M. Baccar
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "tclwrap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 8:57 AM Subject: Can't boot install on Blade 100 - WAS: What choice for Type 6 keyboard > tclwrap wrote: > > My mesage is below, someboday help please! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "tclwrap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 11:52 PM > > Subject: Re: What choice for Type 6 keyboard > > > > > > > >>Hi: > >> > >> Newbye, I have a Blade 100 also and could not > >>get a cd that installs debian correctly. I have the following cd's that > >>failed (all SPARC versions and seem to contain > >>vmlinux64 or something similar): > >> > >> Debian 2.2r2 > >> RedHat 6.2 > >> Mandrake 7.0 > >> Suse 7.0 > >> > >>Most recently, I downloaded version 3.0 for UltraSPARC boot files and > > > > could > > > >>not get them to boot either (tried to boot from disk: boot disk > >>/linux64/root.bin where I saved the files). Any advice? > >> > >>Thanks > >>M. Baccar > > > As a general rule, you don't want to start a new thread using an > existing thread (Type 6 keyboards have nothing to do with your issue). > > > I only tried Debian, but never could get my SunBlade 100 to boot from > the CD. Another poster mentioned that you need a firmware upgrade on the > Blade 100s to get the CD to boot, but I wasn't able to try that. > Instead, I went the tftpboot route. > > Is your Blade 100 a standalone machine, or is it networked? If > networked, do you have access to a tftp server that you can set up for > tftpboot? > > Kent >
