[ale] OT: OT OT OT and very long! Anybody sick today?

[Greg]

I am using rev 4.10.6 (the latest) OBP.  I tried the 2 previous ones with no
luck.  The phunnypharm site was given to me but I have not tried it yet.  I
will try it and the net installs and report back what works.  Since I paid
for the sparc Debian CD's I really want to use them.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Chris
> Ricker
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:26 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: RE: [ale] OT: OT OT OT and very long! Anybody sick today?
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Greg wrote:
>
> > where I am spending more time editing errors then typing. The reason ? -
> > trying to get a decent OS on my SunBlade 100. Debian CD's are a
> no-go and no
> > one but Sun & Solaris can get the dammed floppy drive to work.  What a
> > dichotomy of architecture - the best and worst in one box.
>
> They don't boot off floppy anyway, AFAIK.
>
> To get it going, you'll need the right OBP revision level (4.5.9 works for
> me, later doesn't). Alternately, if you have a SCSI card for it with a
> OBP-compatible PROM on it, the OBP issue is only with IDE CD-ROM
> drives. You
> might also find that a different IDE CD-ROM fixes it (though not all IDE
> CD-ROM drives work in Suns that support IDE -- good luck!).
>
> There's also often issues with the Debian CDs. You'll usually
> have more luck
> with the latest ones, at
> <http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/>.
>
> In general, your best bet is network install.
>
> later,
> chris
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