[rescue] Okay.. OS thoughts

[Shawn Wallbridge]

I ran into the exact same problem many times with my SS2's, a SS5 and a
SS20. I solved the problem by setting up a rarpd and tftp server and booting
off the network. It works great.

I was installing Potato.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Kurt Mosiejczuk
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:31 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Okay.. OS thoughts


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Neil McNeight wrote:

> For a headless Debian install, make sure you have a keyboard plugged in.
> When I tried to install off of floppies, the serial console would not
> respond to the "switch disks and hit ENTER" request, no matter what NVRAM
> settings (it's been a while, but something along the lines of "set
> console ttya" or "set keyboard ttya") or other tricks I tried.

> I don't know how a CD install will go over serial console, but I was so
> disgusted I gave up and ran NetBSD instead (on a sun4c, which doesn't help
> you much).

That really weird.  I've had really good success doing installs, including
over serial...  Ben Collins (current Debian president and sparc guy) is
really good about ironing stuff like that out.  Although he is currently
without a sun4c machine (I'm working on fixing that).

--Kurt

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