2005/10/25, Matt Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 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? >
With some chance try to boot a netinst for Woody, and select the stable installation from there. I've been able to install Sarge like this when I get errors with official sarge netinst. -- Pooly Webzine Rock : http://www.w-fenec.org/

