I gave that iso a try a few days ago and got memory not aligned. I'll re-burn the DVD and try again. it's to bad we can't just do an apt-get dist-upgrade ;-)
Thanks! -- larry On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 5:53 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Larry! > > On 10/10/2016 11:27 PM, Larry Cashdollar wrote: > > I have a Sun ultra 5 running Debian 7, is there an upgrade path to newer > versions of debian? > > Not directly, you'll have to reinstall it. > > Use this NETINST image which I created: > > > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-05-04/ > debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > > Your machine should be compatible, Debian Wheezy (7.0) already required a > 64-bit CPU. > > At the installation prompt (SILO), type: > > install preseed/url=https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/preseed- > sparc64.cfg > > When installing, skip the step called "Install software packages". Just > install the > base system, set up networking and so on and install the rest once you have > booted into the installed system. > > When partitioning, don't forget to create a partition of around 500 MiB to > 1 GiB > size for SILO to work properly. It's recommended to use ext2 or ext3 for > this > partition. > > The current sparc64 installation images are beta quality but will improve > in > the future. So some issues are normal. Feel free to ask any questions on > the mailing list, but always keep the list in the loop (in CC). > > > or have the sun4u CPU support been mothballed? > > No. Debian sparc64 runs perfectly fine on sun4u. However, Oracle's own > version > of Linux for SPARC (it's actually called "Linux for SPARC") requires at > least > sun4v, e.g. SPARC-T1 CPU or newer. > > Cheers, > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
