2008/11/28 david manyé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 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. >
with a daily build netinst installer, today i've been able to do a quick install since the installer is able to detect itself placed in the usb cd drive (and the nics are also detected and working). great!
