On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 12:26, Olivier Bornet wrote: > Hello, > > I want to re-install Debian on my Ultra 10. I want to directly install > sarge. I have try three methods: > > 1. direct boot of my sarge CD. Seems this is not a bootable CD. > > 2. with tftp. Unfortunately, the image : > .../debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/tftpboot.img > don't want to install from my sarge CD. And I have not found a tftp > image for sarge. > > 3. with sparc-mini.iso from: > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ > The CD boot, I can choose either the linux or the rescue kernel, but > it say very soon (when loading the kernel I thing) "Illegal > instruction". > > What other possibilities exist ? One I don't have try, but must be > working is to install the stable Woody, and than upgrade. But is there a > more direct way to install sarge ? CD boot or netboot is OK for me.
I reinstalled my U10 recently with Woody, and upgraded to Sarge. (A roundabout way of downgrading from Sid to Sarge, so the machine could go into a production environment.) The Woody install was more painful than I remember my earlier one being. I tried the mini-iso as well as an earlier netinst.iso both from Ben's space on Auric. I succeeded with the old netinst, after some flailing to work around the problem that Ben's current Auric tree uses "sparc64" instead of "sun4u". (Maybe a symlink sun4u -> sparc64 would help there?) The installer on netinst.iso expects "sun4u" when searching for the kernel and driver.tgz files. I ended up putting the kernel and drivers.tgz file from Auric onto my own HTTP server in a directory tree named to match what the netinst installer was expecting. The mini-iso was more painful. I got around the illegal instruction error using boot cdrom /boot/sparc64 as others on the list have advised, but could not get the root diskette image to load from the CD or floppy using various root= appendages to the above command. -- SP
