Hi, I found a Sparcserver 5 (Same as SparcStation 5) and I tried to boot and install Debian. The Cdrom Drive seems to works but, after many tries, it never boots. I guess the floppy drive is broken because there is a floppy inside and even if i type "floppy-eject" on PROM nothing happens. I had no choice to netboot. Unfortunately every try fails. Here exactly what I did :
==================================================== *Tried Debian 5.0 Lenny * Result : Failed CdRom : No CdRom available for this specific Sub-Archictecture (sparc32 sun4m) Netboot : No support for SparcStation 5 specific Sub-Archictecture (sparc32 sun4m) *Tried Debian 4.0 Etch * Result : Failed CdRom : Burned image from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/4.0_r8/sparc/iso-cd/debian-40r8-sparc-CD-1.iso. Not booting. Hangs on : Boot device: /iommu/sbus/esp...@f,400000/e...@f,800000/s...@3,0 File and args: Netboot : Booted and Succecsfully installed but every time it tries to boot from HD I got a "Watchdog Reset" right after detecting the keyboard or after probing scsi *Tried Debian 3.1 Sarge* Result : Failed CdRom : Burned image from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r8-sparc-binary-1.iso. Not booting. Hangs on something like (this is not the exact path but the meessage looks like this): Boot device: /iommu/sbus/esp...@f,400000/e...@f,800000/s...@6,0 File and args: Netboot : When it tries to get the Content on the install repo it keeps asking me which debian version I wanna use (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable) and will ajuste the URL to this answer ( If I choose "olstable" It will try to dowload the content from http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/oldstable instead of http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge) *Tried Debian 3.0 Woody* Result : Failed CdRom : Did not find any iso yet Netboot : Boot and begin installation. No problems with apt. However, for an unknown reason it can't install silo and I repeat again I can't boot from floppy! ==================================================== As you can see, I'm almost damned with this SparcServer ! If you have any suggestion I'm wide open! BTW The proc is NOT a TurboSparc. It is a microSPARC-II 110 Mhz. It has 256 Mb ram and a AMD Lance Integrated NIC. The hard drive is a about 4-5 gig.
