Hi Robin, On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 01:30 +0000, Robin Hammond wrote: > There is an option to load the firmware. As best I can tell it > involves a USB device, the first slice of which is formatted to > fat32fs. Why not Z-Modem? That's a question for the debian devs. > I've tried that, but how do I know if i got the firmware loaded at > all ? Can I add the firware to the debian ISO before I burn it?
I do not have a Sparc Server with Debian installer on my hands now. But please drop the idea of using Z-Modem. You do have networking running, do you? If so, you've got to be able to start a ssh session, to do some smart things remotely. That's makes life a lot easier. But true, you need to start the Installer with Expert mode first, for getting the ssh option. Within the installer, you can execute a terminal. For Magaraid there are some kernel modules. 1) megaraid.ko 2) megaraid_mbox.ko 3) megaraid_mm.ko 4) megaraid_sas.ko Not sure these are compiled. I would say, you need sas, but verify. # modinfo megaraid_sas I do not know what udeb package exactly has megaraid modules. http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-sparc64/main/l/linux/ But if you find out, you got to be able installing it using anna- install. And if you need a firmware? I check this with dmesg. # dmesg | grep -i firmware If it ask for one, you will see a message. Thanks, -- Frans van Berckel Media Engineer / Linux Master LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fransvberckel/
