Re: Correction on Sarge Installer

2010-11-19 Thread Julien Savard
The SparcStation 5 have CD-Rom drvie but it's broken (don't mount any CD). The SparcClassic simply don't have Cd-Rom drive. I tried via floppies but it was pain in the neck. I'm just installing it via tftp image. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.dewrote:

Re: Correction on Sarge Installer

2010-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:01:25AM -0500, Julien Savard wrote: Debian Sarge was the last to officially support all sparc32 systems (wich include sun4, sun4c, sun4d and sun4m). Etch support only sun4m and lenny only support sparc64. I have an old SparcStation5 ans a Sparc Classic wich are both

Re: Correction on Sarge Installer

2010-11-19 Thread Julien Savard
Well I haven't see this thst way. I hate to dump working computer, I really like to reycle old computer with Linux but I guess I'll have to deal with openBSD or NetBSD for these machines. (SparcStation 5 and SparcClassic) :( Thanks for the reply On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Steve

Re: Correction on Sarge Installer

2010-11-15 Thread Julien Savard
Hi, Debian Sarge was the last to officially support all sparc32 systems (wich include sun4, sun4c, sun4d and sun4m). Etch support only sun4m and lenny only support sparc64. I have an old SparcStation5 ans a Sparc Classic wich are both sun4m. I already tried NetBsd but it's way too slow.

Re: Correction on Sarge Installer

2010-11-15 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, Julien Savard juliensavar...@gmail.com wrote: If you have any suggestion exept tweaking old debian installer I'm open to any idea. Which installation media do you use? Do you have the possibility to boot from cdrom? In that case, it should be possible to use a full binary installation

Re: Correction on Sarge Installer

2010-11-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Julien, On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:24:11PM -0500, Julien Savard wrote: I'm looking for something really particular. I'm trying to correct the debian sarge installation script and maybe adapt it to archive.debian.org as it's main mirror. It seems when the installation script was created the

Correction on Sarge Installer

2010-11-10 Thread Julien Savard
Hi, I'm looking for something really particular. I'm trying to correct the debian sarge installation script and maybe adapt it to archive.debian.org as it's main mirror. It seems when the installation script was created the developper didn't have in mind that the mirror tree would change. You can