Hi, I always had problems installing Etch on an SS20, due to the ESP problem. The ESP module was re-written by Spot Calloway (Redhat) over at Aurora Linux, and I managed to get that distro to install perfectly. The distro is RPM based and not GNU/Debian.
To get around the Etch problem, I installed Sarge and didn't apply updates, as they broke my system. A new update of Sarge has been announced, but I'm yet to find an ISO. Unfortunately you will always be fighting an uphill battle trying to get GNU/Linux to run on sparc (32 bit), and I believe that from Lenny, 32 bit is no longer supported. Hope this helps. Cheers, Chris :-(. On 12/01/2008, Peter Rohrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Today I tried to install Debian Etch on a Sparcstation 4 (110MHz CPU, > 96MB Ram) with a 36GB harddrive. I had installed Etch earlier on that > system using a 2 GB Harddrive and wanted to upgrade to a bigger disk. > Unfortunately the installation always failed during hardware detection > at the step "Loading Module esp" (This is at 2% progress). The system > froze and I was unable to switch to another virtuel terminal. > I booted the system over the net using the boot image from > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc32/netboot/2.6/ > > I tried to run the installer on a sparcstation 10, the hardware > detection was working fine on that system. > > Is there some known problem with the Installation of etch on the SS4? > > Thanks, > Peter > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ A great GNU/Linux distro: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]