On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:03:34AM -0600, Ben Reubenstein wrote: > HELLO ALL! > > This past weekend a fallen .com allowed our IT department to get a Sun > Enterprise 250 Server. It currently has Solaris installed on it and we > plan to back that system up. But our ultimate goal is to install debian > linux. > > Our biggest hurdle so far was finding a keyboard for the thing! > > I am very familiar with linux but only on intel machines. I also have > only used red hat and mandrake with their very friendly graphical > interfaces. > > As a newbie I must ask: > > How much trouble is it to get debian running on this sun box? > > What are the necessary ISOs to obtain? > > What is everyone using thier sun box for? >
I'd suggest a serial console. Might be easier. For a decent net install, use: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso.bz2 You can also netboot using the sun4u/tftpboot.img at the same location above. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
