Hi. On Wednesday 26 November 2003 17:36, Karsten Topp wrote: > Hi Newsgroup. > Somehow two old Sparc's dropped into my hands and because Solaris8 is such > a bloat, I would give Linux a try. > First I tried SuSE/Sparc, only to find out that the latest supported > version is 7.3, which is quite old and... it misses importantn things like > sound and java(sic!) > Then I found debian 3.0 and i d/L all the iso's and burned them nicely on > cd's.
The better choice for Sparc ... > > But whenever I tried to install by booting from CD the system tries to > locate the root on NFS, then on fdd and then panics. > Too bad, I do *not* have a floppy in that Sparc's. > Something i missed? Due documentation did *not* mention any usefule > bootparameters. I installed Debian on one of my SS20's last week - I had the same problem. I have two sets of CDs: 3.0R0 and 3.0R1 - none of them worked. The Sparc even didn't accept the requested root floppy when booting from CD. So I booted from rescue floppy, put in the root floppy, selected CD as installation media - and everything worked fine ... But CD boot/install was no problem on my Ultra's (3.0R1, 3.0R0 is a little bit tricky), and as far as I remember (I installed it a while ago) on Sparcstation 1+ and IPX. Something wrong with the ISOs? Regards, Hartwig
