Re: Sun Blade 150 fails to install - magic incantation needed?

2005-09-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 September 2005 04:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Googling showed similar problems with debian-installer on Sparc 64 last > year but nothing obvious. Machine not at home, so can't check exact > wording: HELP - am getting laughed at by Solaris admins and being > told that Linux sucks :

Re: Sun Blade 150 fails to install - magic incantation needed?

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:41:57AM -0700, Tyler wrote: > I would suggest giving a Woody install a go... and then you can always > do a dist-upgrade to sarge, minus the kernel if it still causes issues. > > Tyler. > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > >Attempting to install Debian Sarge on a Sun Blad

Re: Sun Blade 150 fails to install - magic incantation needed?

2005-09-08 Thread Tyler
I would suggest giving a Woody install a go... and then you can always do a dist-upgrade to sarge, minus the kernel if it still causes issues. Tyler. Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Attempting to install Debian Sarge on a Sun Blade 150 which has a current working Solaris 9 on it. Boot from CD works

Sun Blade 150 fails to install - magic incantation needed?

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Attempting to install Debian Sarge on a Sun Blade 150 which has a current working Solaris 9 on it. Boot from CD works - SILO prompt comes up, select linux Machine boots with install kernel - little Tux comes in at top of screen - machine appears to work normally, initialises ramdisk and then die