Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 2005-09-06, Sparc32 netboot image from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc32/netboot/boot.img uname -a: Linux antigone 2.6.8-2-sparc32 #1 Wed Mar 23 02:20:49 EST 2005 sparc GNU/Linux Date: 2005-09-06 Method: Used a serial console and told the OpenBoot PROM to netboot ('boot net' on the console). Setup a boot server on my laptop using rarpd/bootp/tftpd. Used the boot.img file from the above address as boot image. Then I basically did a normal netinstall, no proxies or simmilar involved. Packages source: ftp://ftp.es.debian.org (sarge) Machine: Sun SparcStation 5, 110MHz Processor: Fujitsu MB86904, 110MHz Memory: 64Mb Root Device: SCSI (0:0:3:0), ST32171W SUN2.1G Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 66 heads, 62 sectors, 1015 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4092 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 48 98208 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 48 947 1839354 83 Linux native /dev/sda3 0 1015 2076690 5 Whole disk /dev/sda4 947 1015 139128 82 Linux swap /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/sda2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) Output of lspci and lspci -n: No output with both commands Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] Create file systems: [E] Mount partitions: [E] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: Everything worked pretty well actually, just partitioning/creating file systems was a bit problematic. I chose automatic partitioning of my HDD with a sun partition table (one large partition for everything). That didn't work, failing with "Can't partition this way, probably too many primary partitions" (or something like that). So I tried other partition table formats: msdos (which gave the same error with auto partitioning) and bsd (which worked, but the partitions weren't recognized by the kernel/devfs, so I couldn't mount them). Finally I chose sun partition table format again and partitioned manually, which finally worked. Creating ext3 on the / partition failed again though, with an opaque "Couldn't create ext3 filesystem on /" error. So I chose ext2 for /boot and /, which worked. Everything else worked just fine. Cheers, Christian Aichinger
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