Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Erik Mouw wrote: Sun machines are able to boot from network, so instead of fiddling with new hardware, it might be easier to do a net boot. See section 5.5 from the installation manual: http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/sparc/install Hmm, my box seems not to find

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
Hi Andreas, On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: Hmm, my box seems not to find the tftp image. It just repeats: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Is your ARP server up and running? This message is typically generated due to some networking problems.. Typically, the tftp images are

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: Hmm, my box seems not to find the tftp image. It just repeats: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Is your ARP server up and running? This message is typically generated due What is an ARP server. I followed the instructions in the SPARC

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
Hi again, On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: Hmm, my box seems not to find the tftp image. It just repeats: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Is your ARP server up and running? This message is typically generated due What is an ARP server. An ARP server translates a MAC

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:28:21PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: Hmm, my box seems not to find the tftp image. It just repeats: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Is your ARP server up and running? This message is typically generated due

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: 0, write down network configs and such rarp support in opal kernel tftp installed local mirror exported ro via nfs 1, on hematit, power on, stop-a, boot net 2, on opal, run insmod and make sure hostname is in either dns or /etc/hosts 3, on

Re: Which floppy drive

2000-12-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:20:28PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: because I'm not able to burn a Debian sparc boot CD just now I wonder if I could insert a floppy drive into my brandnew E250 server to install Debian from floppy. Any hints if I could use normal PC IDE hardware? Sun machines are

Which floppy drive

2000-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, because I'm not able to burn a Debian sparc boot CD just now I wonder if I could insert a floppy drive into my brandnew E250 server to install Debian from floppy. Any hints if I could use normal PC IDE hardware? Kind regards Andreas.