<snip> > Now before you go bashing on my cd burning ability, this disk will boot fine > in my other sparcs. So will all of the other cds I have burned. I have > purchased new memory for it, I have done a thorough wiping of the drive in > another machine, I have even put back the oem sun cdrom and 8gb hdd, and > have the exact same results. I 'am' able to install Solaris 9 with NO > PROBLEMS, and it runs great. I've been told some older Sun boxen will only boot from particular brands of CD - that might explain this although AFAIK they stopped doing that way before the Ultra series. Perhaps try again with the OEM cdrom and the new hdd.
> But, I want debian on here. This machine > previously had debian installed, and ran great. At that time, it had the 8gb > hdd, and 2 smaller scsi drives. I am willing to try anything you all might > suggest. I really don’t want to trash this machine, as it performs so well. > Thanks for any replies. Have you tried a net install? If you have another Sun boxen (or access to one) you could install onto the hard disk and then switch boxes. IIRC there is also a way of installing from an existing UNIX - you could use Solaris 9 to install onto the larger disk and then boot from it. HTH Sweet Dreams, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Seasons change, things come to pass"