Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/sparc32/netboot/boot.img on
2004.07.01
uname -a: System is not available for this any more. It was running Sarge.
Date: 2004.07.01 over the course of the afternoon
Method: Netboot, followed by fetching packages via FTP.
Machine: SUN4M, Sun Sparcstation 5, 110MHz
Processor: standard (machine down at present)
Memory: 96 MB
Root Device: SCSI
Root Size/partition table: Error prior to partitioning.
Output of lspci: No PCI bus.
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked:[E]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [E]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
This was required at the Sun boot prompt:
boot net foo debian-installer/framebuffer=false
If I omitted the framebuffer directive, I would never see the language
selection screen. Including the framebuffer directive made things proceed
normally.
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