Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade

2002-06-21 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I downloaded and burned the netinst.iso from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso. It boots the SunBlade 100 to the boot: prompt, and I can type help and get a help screen, but if I just press ENTER to start the install, I get the message Fast

RE: Booting Installation on SunBlade

2002-06-21 Thread Solarisexpert.com
: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:11 AM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade Kent West wrote: I downloaded and burned the netinst.iso from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso. It boots the SunBlade

Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade

2002-06-19 Thread Loren Bandiera
It boots the SunBlade 100 to the boot: prompt, and I can type help and get a help screen, but if I just press ENTER to start the install, I get the message Fast Data Access MMU Miss followed by the ok prompt. I had the same problem with the ISO on my SunBlade 100. In the end, what I did

Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade

2002-06-18 Thread Kent West
Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:17:55PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'm new to the Sun world, but comfortable on i386 and mostly comfortable on Debian for that platform. Don't even attempt to install potato on a Blade. You will have about as much luck as you would shooting

Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade

2002-06-13 Thread Michael Hicks
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't even attempt to install potato on a Blade. You will have about as much luck as you would shooting shooting flies from 100 hundred yards with a paperclip. Use woody. There's a netinst.iso image in the disks-sparc/current/ directory. Is that

Booting Installation on SunBlade

2002-06-12 Thread Kent West
I'm new to the Sun world, but comfortable on i386 and mostly comfortable on Debian for that platform. I just got a lab full of SunBlade 100s that I get to play with for a month or two before they go into production for college students. So of course you know I want to try Debian on one of

Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade

2002-06-12 Thread Patrick Morris
Having the boot server on a different subnet is definitely part of your problem -- the ARP/RARP requests won't cross subnet boundaries. On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Kent West wrote: 2) Can anyone help me out with the tftboot process? Here's what I did on my Debian i386 box: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade

2002-06-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:17:55PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'm new to the Sun world, but comfortable on i386 and mostly comfortable on Debian for that platform. Don't even attempt to install potato on a Blade. You will have about as much luck as you would shooting shooting flies from 100