On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:17:31PM +1100, Lance Bell wrote:
> I am trying to install linux on it, my pref is debian.

I got that much.

The bits that don't make sense are:

> >>I noticed that the silo.conf on 
> >>the
> >>woody cds points to sparc64.gz as a boot image but there is on a sparc64
> >>uncompressed boot as far as I can see. If I type "rescue" at the silo 
> >>boot promt
> >>it does two nies and i end up with
> >>booting linux...

"I know those words...."

Anyway. Are you using the right boot floppies and driver disks?

http://www.au.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s4.2
http://www.au.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-appendix.en.html#s-driver-images
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