I have a new Sun Blade 100 and am trying to replace the pre-installed Solaris 8 OS with Debian Woody. I am installing from the CD-ROM. At first, I started with the standard Woody CD image. But then I read the list archives and decided to try Ben Collins' netinstall image. I burned a CD with that and installed the packages from the network per directions at:
"http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200208/msg00151.html"; With either image, the installation seems to go fine up until I select "Make system bootable" option and reboot. If I say something like 'boot disk1:a' (where I installed my root partition) at the prompt, I do not see a 'SILO' as expected; instead it just hangs at that point. I initially had trouble following the instruction to install the newer SILO package because 'wget' isn't initially installed. I got around it by making an /etc/apt/sources.list file and doing 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install wget'. Installing the newer SILO version didn't help things. My /etc/silo.conf reads: partition=1 root=/dev/hda1 timeout=100 image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only Does anyone have suggestions to make this thing boot from the disk? Thanks, Roy Bixler [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. I also tried to pass a 'root=/dev/hda1' parameter in with the CD-ROM boot, but still got the installation program. Is it possible to bypass the installation program or do I have to make my own bootable CD?
