Unfortunately it gets as far as the busybox errors and that's it. I let
it sit for 30 minutes...
Woody would seem to be the next obvious path but my floppy drive is
busted. Does anyone have a boot CD image that has the Woody installer
for SPARC? I checked the mirrors and all that are there are floppy images.
Many thanks for the quick responses from Robert and Jan!
Schaefer, Robert (PS) wrote:
I'm not sure about Sarge in particular, but I do know Debian runs fine on a
Sparc5, as I'm running it on my SparcStation5. How long did you wait when
it put out the setting up filesystem message? I get lots of Unimplemented
messages, but that doesn't usually stop things from working, you may just
have to be patient.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Nichols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Sarge on a Sparc5
I recently inherited a SparcStation 5 from a friend (96meg memory 2gig
drive). I have a very old version of SuSE running on it with openldap
and I wanted to experiment with debian. I tried loading woody by floppy
but found the floppy drive is broken.
So I moved on and downloaded the latest cdrom-mini.iso (3/15/04) and
started the install. I selected the boot install from the menu and
watched it autodetect my hardware etc.
The entire install halted with the following lines:
Setting up filesystem please wait....
busybox[8]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[9]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[11]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[12]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
init[10]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
busybox[13]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Needless to say I'm stuck. Is there a parameter I need to put in before
boot or will this work at all on this old box?
Many Thanks
Eric
