On 04/20/2018 11:32 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Dear sparc types : I have setup a small machine to test with. A very old netra type unit. Should I assume that I can network boot the existing debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso via tftp or is there a better install image laying about?
As a follow up ( to myself ) I have tftp server going with : # ls -lap /export/debian9_sparc/boot total 45879 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Apr 4 20:55 ./ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root sys 2048 Apr 4 20:55 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 770 Apr 4 20:55 debian.txt -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14093161 Apr 4 20:55 initrd.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6752 Jan 22 2016 isofs.b -r--r--r-- 1 root root 173 Apr 4 20:55 notsupported.txt -r--r--r-- 1 root root 53760 Jan 22 2016 second.b -r--r--r-- 1 root root 846 Aug 31 2017 silo.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root root 9328968 Apr 4 20:55 sparc64 There is no dvd drive and nothing but a serial console so I hope this is even possible. Dennis
