On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:57:39AM -0700, Matt Dunford wrote: > Hi All, > > Has anyone successfully installed debian on a SunBlade 100? I've been > trying various netinst images: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-sparc-netinst.iso > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso > I seem to recall that there was a post to an "unofficial" netinst that would work when I asked this question about six weeks ago. If I recall correctly, the netinst on the official images wasn't actually ready for the Sun Blades as we released Sarge. I've helped to get Debian installed on a Sun Blade at work: there were ide problems and intermittent CD recognition problems.
In the end, I think we disconnected the CD in order to get the thing to install and did a TFTP boot over the network. Not fun and not ultra reliable. I'd like to try again but this was done in a hurry to meet a fairly urgent deadline. Others also appear to be having problems. One other solution which has worked is to use debootstrap from a Solaris install. This takes considerable application but appears to work fine. I _think_ this way you may have fewer problems. [Floppy, it seems, will never work - something about obscure hardware interfaces and non-standard connections.] Not straightforward: almost enough to put me off Debian on architectures other than Intel/AMD immediately :( > I never get to the debian installer itself. The stable complains of > "cramfs: wrong magic". The "current" pukes with "Remapping the > kernel... Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss". > > I've been googling around, reading the documention, trying everything > I see other people doing. I've played with various boot params: > ramdisk_size=16000, mem=128m, etc. I've got a stack of Blades > collecting dust and I'm anxious to get them off Solaris. Any > thoughts? > > -- > Sincerely, > Matt Dunford > Unix Systems Administrator > DOE Joint Genome Institute > url: http://www.jgi.doe.gov > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 925-296-5844 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
