On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:03:19AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > > I just tftpbooted the images from > > > > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ > > > > The standard boot images would crash while booting. > > > > That's helpful. I found that the stock images were not recognized by > the OpenBoot firmware. Not exactly a crash, but neither were they > successful.
Oh, the boot image at the above site doesn't support the NIC's on X1. I removed the HDD and put it in another machine and loaded the basedebs.tar, drivers.tgz, rescue.bin files manually. I then tftpbooted the boot disk and installed from the HDD. The extra drivers (again from above site) included a tulip driver which does work and can be used to install everything else, although it will order the NIC's in reverse order, so eth0 is network port 1 and eth1 is network port 0. [...] > > /dev/hda1 0 5201 2621304 83 Linux native > > /dev/hda2 u 5201 6241 524160 82 Linux swap > > /dev/hda3 0 38790 19550160 5 Whole disk > > /dev/hda4 6241 38790 16404696 83 Linux native > > Interesting question. In fact, I didn't put it first. It's third Ok. I think there's probably if swap is put first, so not having it first is fine ;) > because that's where solaris put it. I don't have the machine, so I > cannot reprint it here. I know that I only had two partitions, 1 and > 3. 1 is most of the disk and 3 has about 1G for swap. Hmmm... That doesn't make sense. I thought 3 had to be the entire disk? If you look at my partition table above 3 is the entire disk, so 1, 2 and 4 actually overap with 3. > The only other thing I can think of trying is the tftp image you > suggest. Have you been successful with booting the Debian/Sparc > install CDs? I don't have any IDE CD-ROM drives here to try that with, so no. This machine is a: Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 400MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 4.0, 640 MB memory installed, Serial #50737376. and as of two minutes ago I have it running: 2.5.70 #3 Sun Jun 15 03:08:48 EST 2003 sparc64 GNU/Linux -- Jamie Lenehan Work Phone: +61 3 9843 8817 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
