I've been trying to install Debian on my Sparcstation 10 for a few days now, but so far no luck. My only real options for an installation are 1) from the Hard Disk (similar to the bsd.rd method) or 2) from floppy. Net booting isn't an option at this point. I would prefer Sarge, but Etch wouldn't be bad either.......
At this point, I do have OpenBSD 3.9 running on this machine, but I would prefer Debian. I found the floppy images located at http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/daily/sparc32/floppy/2.6/ , but so far no luck. I wasn't able to locate floppy images for Sarge... The Etch install process runs fine and nearly completes. However just after asking if I want to participate in the popularity contest, it begins downloading some files. After a few files (30 or so), it just sits there with about 1m30s left on the progress bar. I've left it in this state for 4 -5 hours, so i'm quite positive that the installer is hung... any ideas? I'm willing to help troubleshoot if it is a real issue with the installer... Also (unrelated, but the devs might like to know about this for etch), I've noticed that the installer gives me a non fatal error about loading a kernel module called sunqe (modprobe -v sunqe ). I'm not sure if need this module... the machine does have a addon ethernet card so maybe it is trying to load a module for that card?? In any case it doesn't matter for me right now since I'm using the built-in ethernet card. If at all possible, I would like to get away from the boot floppies and boot from a hard drive based install image / ram disk. My particular machine has 2 - 8GB SCSI hard drives, and I have OpenBSD on sd2 which means that sd3 (disk 0) is available for Debian. For now OpenBSD is my fall back option... which isn't horrible, but its *cough* almost too secure for me with that whole chroot apache jail thing (i just want a small test server...) ;) -Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
