FW: Help with sarge and some new workstation and server

2005-09-26 Thread Alejandro Galue
er 24, 2005 3:49 PM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Cc: Alejandro Galue Subject: Re: Help with sarge and some new workstation and server Alejandro Galue declared on Wednesday 21 September 2005 09:20 am: > Hello All, > > I need to test debian on a Sun Blade 2500 (UltraSparc III) and Su

Re: Help with sarge and some new workstation and server

2005-09-24 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Alejandro Galue declared on Wednesday 21 September 2005 09:20 am: > Hello All, > > I need to test debian on a Sun Blade 2500 (UltraSparc III) and Sun > Fire 6800 (UltraSparc IV). FYI, a Sun Fire 6800 is UltraSparc III, not IV. The 6900 is an USIV. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- ht

Re: Help with sarge and some new workstation and server

2005-09-22 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Is there a restriction on witch partition must be the boot linux partition >with SILO ? (like first 8Gb for PC based machines) It needs to be supported by openboot. (On 32 bit sparc machines, this restricts it to the first 1 or 2 gb of th

Help with sarge and some new workstation and server

2005-09-21 Thread Alejandro Galue
Hello All, I need to test debian on a Sun Blade 2500 (UltraSparc III) and Sun Fire 6800 (UltraSparc IV). Currently I have a Sun Blade 1000 for testing. I tried many ways to install and run debian with no success. As said on many messages on the list, CD boot install does not work. I tried with a