On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:44:59PM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > i just downloaded and burned the iso images of > > the debian installer CD for sparc (sarge-sparc-netinst.iso ). > > Unfortunately, the box fails to boot up - the last kernel message > > reads: > > > > setting console mode to unicode (UTF-8) > > > > > > and then a never-ending stream of "Segmentation fault" follows ... > > Any ideas what i need to do to get by this problem? > > > > TIA Ralf Mattes > > Unless you are looking at testing and reporting problems with the new debian > installer, your best be will be to download a woody install image and > boot from that.
Hmm, that's how i started, but unfortunately my woody installation (vers. info Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 "Woody" - Official sparc Binary-1 CD) doesn't even get this far - it stops during the early boot with a message that claims that the root fs can't be mounted via NFS (???) and prompts me to insert a root floppy (which is kind of hard considering the fact that my box doesn't _have_ a floppy drive. I'd hate to have to install a floppy just to install Debian). Thanks RalfD > After you install the base system, do a dist-upgrade and you should be > ready to go. If you just want to get back to work, this is the way to > go about it. > > Good luck, > Tomislav Renic > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]