2008/11/27 Brian Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > david manyé wrote: > >> hello, >> >> these days i can "play" with a t5120. i've tried to install lenny rc1 but >> it complains that, after booting the installer, cannot detect the cdrom. >> >> do you know if is possible to install linux on it? >> >> thanks. >> > Hi David, > > For whatever reason it appears that Sun decided to use USB for the > internal optical interface on the following systems: > > Sun Fire X4140 > Sun Fire X4150 > Sun Fire X4240 > Sun Fire X4250 > Sun Fire X4450 > Enterprise T5120 > Enterprise T5140 > Enterprise T5240 > > The first thing I would try would be to attempt a net boot/net install > to avoid the USB issue. > > -Brian >
thanks brian, now i can successfully boot the machine but the problem is now the network card: there are 4 nics intel 82571 that, if i'm not wrong, require the e1000e driver and in the boot.img used to boot this driver is missing. if i knew how to rebuild the boot.img file... any idea?hello, now i can successfully boot the machine but the problem is now the network card: there are 4 nics intel 82571 that, if i'm not wrong, require the e1000e driver and in the boot.img used to boot this driver is missing. if i knew how to rebuild the boot.img file... i'll post a message on debian-boot ... any idea? thanks.
