I apologize if this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer on Google or the list group archives from the past year.
I have bought the sparc Debian cd's for 3.01 R1 from AACDS.com and attempted to install them on a SunBlade 100. On my SunBlade the OBP version is 4.0.45 2001/02/08 and the POST version is 1.2.6 2000/08/30. It has over a half Gig of RAM and a 30 GB HD. I have attempted to install by getting to the prom and typing in "boot cdrom". The install starts out fine and then stops with a message about missing MMU memory or such (I cannot recall the exact words) - and that is as far as I have gone. This happened on 3 install attempts. Solaris 9 and OpenBSD 3.4 have run fine on the machine so I think the hw is ok. It seems to me from Googling that there is a problem with the Sun prom and Debian. In some instances folks have said to upgrade the prom and in others they have said not to upgrade. I can upgrade using Patch-ID# 111179-08 Jul/24/2003 to version OBP: 4.10.3 created 2003/05/02 and POST: 2.0.1 2001/08/23 . My question is if I do this will Debian install from the CD's ? will there be a sparc R2 coming out soon ? is a net install my only way of getting Debian on the box ? Any hints/pointers/etc would be appreciated. I have just finished my first Debian install on an old beater pc (i386) just to see what Debian looks like and I am impressed with Debian (even if KDE does not work and I have to use gnome). I am currently using RH 7.3 (soon to be retired), Suse, and OpenBSD and I am hoping I can replace them all with Debian - starting with my SunBlade. Thanks in advance, Greg