Thank you Stan, this looks promising and easy enough. Another method i found working, but not as convenient as the above, is to install grub2 on another system with a working cdrom and then to add an iso residing on an existing partition as menuenty in grub. The only difference compared to x86/64 are the needed modules and the adressing of the drive, like:
menuentry "Debian ISO" { set isofile="/path/to/file/name-of-iso-file-.iso" insmod gzio insmod part_sun insmod <yourfilesystem_needed e.g. ext2/xfs> loopback loop (ieee1275/disk, sun1)$isofile echo "Starting $isofile..." linux (loop)/casper/vmlinux iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.gz } Regards, Connor On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:46 PM Stan Johnson <user...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > On 7/5/22 9:15 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there a sparc64 debian installer image available somewhere that i > > could write with dd to a hdd/ssd and boot from it? > > > > > > Regards, > > Connor > > > > Hi Connor, > > As I recall, the last time I tried to install Debian SID from the Debian > installer CD, it did not recognize my CD drive (despite having just > booted the CD from that drive). So I copied the entire installation CD > to a spare 1 GB disk (something like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/sdb > bs=64k"). I was then able to boot from that disk and proceeded to a full > installation. My existing installation was Debian 7.8, which was able to > recognize the CD drive. > > -Stan