On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:27:11AM -0500, Terry Dabbs wrote: > To the Great Penguin in the sky, > or Pumpkin? > I have purchased what is apparently the "potato" release for sparc. I > acquired two Sparc600LM servers ($27 for the pair!) which are at this > time runnung Sunos 4.1.3, which I am (or was, in the past) very > familiar. I very much want to install the debian release, but it appears > that the 4M architechure (or more probably the boot program) will simply > not load onto the system. What I am used to with Sparc and HPUX, is an > install boot program loading into memory, asking how you wish to > procede, and then loading the system disks, etc. > I have tried a number of scenarios, and some appeared to be successful, > that is, you could see the the penguin in the upper left, see all the > linux device names instead of Sunos ones. Then, after the initial boot, > init appears to be looking, or not know where to look for rc files and > the like, instead of loading the new release. > I realize the instructions say that this is simply solved by going to > floppies, well, this system has no floppy drive, just a CD and and > ancient 150MB scsi tape reader. > If you have that monkey that can install this, due to its utter > simplicity to install, please have him contact me. > > I don't have what I typed in front of me, but it was along these lines: > > b cdrom ( this was too easy ..., and was useless.) > b cdrom linux root=/dev/sda1 cfstype=sun ( This, or something similar, > gets me the boot, and then:) > > Warning: Unable to open init console: init ( After we boot and its > looking very good, it bails.... ) > > Terry Dabbs >
Hi Terry, you might want to send this to debian-sparc. Andreas -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: +49 179 8725141 postal: Ginnheimer Landstr. 148, D-60431 Frankfurt html: http://www.port22.net/andreas/AndreasObermaier.html txt: http://www.port22.net/andreas/AndreasObermaier.txt GPG Keyid 0x0FCD0EE2 GPG Fingerprint C2FF 6147 0ADB 1674 4096 2339 370F CBDF 0FCD 0EE2 fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage: The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
