On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Erik Mouw wrote: > Sun machines are able to boot from network, so instead of fiddling with > new hardware, it might be easier to do a net boot. See section 5.5 from > the installation manual: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/sparc/install Hmm, my box seems not to find the tftp image. It just repeats:
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet My reseller (which declared not to support Linux in any way :-(() said that this is not possible with the E250 because it searches for some configuration files using ARP protocol. Another chance would be, if someone could ship a Debian boot cd (I'm currently unable to burn one myself :-() Hope to get my "Christmas gift" running this week ... Kind regards Andreas.