Thanks! I’ll try that one I have 512MB on the old beast.
> On Mar 18, 2026, at 1:44 PM, Jeremy Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 1:48 PM Jonathan Pallant <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On 18 Mar 2026, at 16:36, Mike Tremaine <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I wanted to do a fresh install of debian sparc, what is the most recent
>>> installer image that is likely to work on Sun Ultra 5/10 workstation? I
>>> think the laat one I tried was in the 10.0 release.
>>
>> I tried [1] recently, but it wouldn’t boot in 256 MiB of RAM on my Ultra 5.
>> I think it needs 512 MiB due to the large initrd. I recall it worked OK on
>> an Ultra 80 with 3 GiB RAM though.
>>
>> - JP
>>
>> [1]
>> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-12-06/debian-13.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
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> This worked on my Ultra 1. But I have 1G RAM in that.
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