On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 10:30 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Hermann Lauer wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:09:58AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > I don't think I can usefully help since I'm too far down the > > > Debian > > > management/development learning curve (and have rather a lot of > > > other stuff > > > on my plate), but could you give us a pointer to where the > > > netinst image can > > > > Me too - exacly the same situation at the moment. > > > > > be found, compatible hardware, what sources.list should be, and > > > where > > > testers should report issues. > > > > I have installed sparc hardware since over 10 years only via > > netboot images > > and may try a few basic netinst tests on Enterprise class systems > > if that > > would help. > > 10+ years but only using ISO, in part as a conscious decision to > reduce > the load on the Debian servers. However I got into deep water in the > Squeeze/Wheezy eras, some of which I've not really managed to > extricate > myself from. > > I've got an E4500 and a Netra 20 here which I'd like to get Debian > back onto, at present they're OpenSXCE. > > > Thanks for all the work and merry X-mas, > > Seconded :-)
My two cents. Let's look into a real solution guy's. We need a clean and easy bootable Sparc station, with build tools to create a ISO. But that's isn't available yet. It looks like being in a chicken or the egg situation. So we need a environment te create one. Using a Debian tftp boot server, cloud be a solution. The needed parts are. * A network switch and some cat 5 cables * A littering i386 or amd64 machine or laptop, with a Debian supported network interface * A USB stick, 2GB or 4GB, what's available * A Debian minimal i386, including kernel and Grub bootloader bootstraped to -> [usb-stick] [1] * A dhcp, tftp, rarp and nfs server service, for letting the Sparc station able to boot -> [usb-stick] * Config the dhcp, tftp, rarp and nfs server [2] or [3] or [4] * A Debian minimal Sparc64 /nfs chroot, included build tools and kernel, no boot loader needed -> [usb-stick] [1] https://gist.github.com/tr3buchet/6407920 [2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Sparc [3] http://znark.com/tech/netbootsparc.html [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sparc/Netboot So create a small network by patching the cat 5 cables into the switch and computers. Next boot the laptop with the created usb-stick. And boot the Sparc64 station by tftp network. You can tail the laptop log files to see how the boot flows. Do some debugging getting it to run. # boot net Next start building the CD image, local on Sparc. Thanks, Frans van Berckel
