Hi Sparc gurus, I finally got a "new" sparc box to replace passed away previous one some SunFire IIRC, which I use for upstream CI on big-endians. I have got now an UltraSparc T2 with 48GB of RAM -- whoohoo
followed https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64 and grabbed https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-12-13/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso image. After figuring out how to boot the beast off cd, went ahead with partitioning (software raid, lvm, ext3) and install base system. That is the step which failed. Log (4th screen) ends with: ... Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): line 49: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): zpool: not found Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): /bin/block-attr: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): line 33: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): blkid: not found Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): /bin/block-attr: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): line 33: Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): blkid: not found Jan 18 02:50:20 main-menu[228]: (process:3771): Jan 18 02:50:23 main-menu[228]: DEBUG: resolver (libgcc1): package doesn't exist (ignored) Jan 18 02:50:23 main-menu[228]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb Jan 18 02:50:23 main-menu[228]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb Jan 18 02:50:23 main-menu[228]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected Jan 18 02:51:13 debootstrap: mknod: /target/dev/null: No such file or directory if you try to rerun installation of the base system, it fails in other miserable ways: Jan 18 03:08:55 debootstrap: tar: can't open './usr/share/doc/gcc-6-base/README.Debian.sparc64.gz': File exists any clues on how to overcome or recommendations on another image/release to use on the beast Thanks in advance and please keep me CCed -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik