Hello Debian SPARC folk, First a trivial question: can a flag be set so that the PROM in an old SPARC 2 (ROM Rev. 2.4.1) automatically goes into "new" mode rather than prompting with "Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new ...?
In the manual, _Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For SPARC_, I see section "3.7 Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System". The instructions were attempted with the objective of installing woody on a spare disk, on a SPARC currently running potato. The way seems blocked where dselect reports that "wget does not appear to be available". Is there a workaround? Thanks, Peter E. Peter Easthope http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/

