[plug] SubBlade 100

[Quintin Lette]

Hi John,

I have just installed debian on a Netra X1 that I acquired and it runs
really well.

I installed Sid using the new Sarge installer (the woody installer
didn't have the network drivers). I installed directly over the
network after setting up a bootp server on my i386 linux box.

Note however that the installation didn't finish for me, (it spat out
some error message on vty6, and I couldn't work out to get there as
the Netra is headless) it wouldn't install the kernel. I had to go in
to shell, chroot to the partition and finish the install manually.
Luckily Apt was running.

Anyway Debian is now running really well on it, but be prepared for
possible install problems.

Cheers

Quintin


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:43:28 +0800, John Smith <acs at v-app.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hello All.
>  
> This is my first post to this list for several years... So be gentle on me.
>  
> I have "inherited" a SunBlade 100. It came with a "stuffed" copy of Solaris
> on it & I want to replace it with a "flavour" of Linux. I've been running
> RedHat X on another PC for quite some time so I'm comfortable with RedHat
> however I see that they don't have a recent port for a sparc box.
>  
> So without starting the "which Linux is best" war can someone share with me
> which way to go? I see Debian appears to be reasonably recent but I am open
> to any suggestions.
>  
> I have also seen on Sun's site a comment about the correct version of
> OpenBoot to load / install Linux. The box I have has ver 4.0. I freely admit
> to knowing bugger all about the Sun box. I'm still feeling my way around.
>  
> I have been trawling around the internet to find out (a) where to get
> OpenBoot updates (b) How to install OpenBoot updates WITHOUT a working OS
> (The boot prompt) and (c) Which version of Linux to use and finally how to
> install it.
>  
> Cheers.
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