Hello again,
i had mixed results for now with the installation on a T1000 using the
dd'ed netinstall iso.
All went seemingly well until suddenly some files on the debian
mirrors could not be found and i had to ignore it and went with a base
system.
The message was "Downloading a file failed" during the step "Configure
the package manager".
Then at the end it could not install grub to the target hdd. Message
was "The 'grub-ieee1275' package failed to install into /target/.
How can i find the cause of it and manually correct it and install
grub from the rescue system?
(also does anyone know the key combination to switch console tabs in
the installer when the serial connection runs over the screen
utility?)
Regards,
Connor
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 5:43 PM Connor McLaughlan <cont6p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry..obvious error in my last post, resulting from a cut-paste-mix
> of a grub2 iso-boot tutorial...
> "casper" should be "install"...or wherever the kernel and initrd
> reside in the iso.
>
> linux (loop)/install/vmlinux iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash
> initrd (loop)/install/casper/initrd.gz
>
> Regards,
> Connor
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 4:42 PM Connor McLaughlan <cont6p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you Stan, this looks promising and easy enough.
> >
> > Another method i found working, but not as convenient as the above, is
> > to install grub2 on another system with a working cdrom and then to
> > add an iso residing on an existing partition as menuenty in grub.
> > The only difference compared to x86/64 are the needed modules and the
> > adressing of the drive, like:
> >
> > menuentry "Debian ISO" {
> > set isofile="/path/to/file/name-of-iso-file-.iso"
> > insmod gzio
> > insmod part_sun
> > insmod <yourfilesystem_needed e.g. ext2/xfs>
> >
> > loopback loop (ieee1275/disk, sun1)$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
