On 08/08/2018 05:23 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > pssst ... there is nothing in the silo.conf of netinst.iso for sun4v and that > had me wondering.
Why though? sun4v is fully backwards-compatible, so any sun4u software will also work on sun4v. > regardless .. how the heck to netboot this thing ? There have been multiple discussions on this topic on this mailing list. Basically, you need the d-i images from the tarball here: > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-sparc64/main/d/debian-installer/ Then set up a TFTP server and let the machine boot the kernel, see: > https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/sparc/ch05s01.html.en Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913