On Tuesday 08 January 2002 01:11, Gavinux Li wrote: > Hi, all, > I am a newcomer to this mailing list. > I got a sparc IPX recently, it has 48M memory, a SCSI > harddisk, a floopy, a 10BaseT network interface, > without keyboard, without monitor, without mouse. > I want to install debian-linux on this IPX, How can I > do it? > I have a Pentium 75 with SCSI interface, maybe it will > help to install linux. > > Anyone who can drop me a line of how to install it > will be very appreciated! > > It is a big challange for me to do it without > keyboard, monitor, CDROM. :-(
You will need for quick evaluation : A null-modem cable between your pc with a decent terminal emulator (9600 8N1), A network connection between the PC and the IPX, And a PC cdrom unit exported with NFS, A boot disk and a root disk... Booting on the network takes sometime a longer time to configure on the installation server, but boot and root disks are useless in this case. Eric.