Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/sparc32/netboot/boot.img on 2004.07.01 uname -a: System is not available for this any more. It was running Sarge. Date: 2004.07.01 over the course of the afternoon Method: Netboot, followed by fetching packages via FTP. Machine: SUN4M, Sun Sparcstation 5, 110MHz Processor: standard (machine down at present) Memory: 96 MB Root Device: SCSI Root Size/partition table: Error prior to partitioning. Output of lspci: No PCI bus.
Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [E] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [E] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: This was required at the Sun boot prompt: boot net foo debian-installer/framebuffer=false If I omitted the framebuffer directive, I would never see the language selection screen. Including the framebuffer directive made things proceed normally. -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ewige Blumenkraft! https://bliss.dyndns.org/ awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
