On 12/01/11 17:15, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 12/01/11 16:48, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> On 12 January 2011 16:21, Mateusz Loskot<mate...@loskot.net> wrote: >>> >>> Thinking of future, could anyone estimate when it will be possible to >>> boot Solaris 10 installation from ISO disks, if at all? >>> To summary, what OS alternative for SPARC we have got apart from Debian >>> which are known to work under QEMU? *BSD systems? >>> >> >> I can run NetBSD sparc install CD just fine. >> >> It supports sparc32 in the latest release. > > Thanks. Great, I'll try. > > One of the problems I found with Debian Etch is the package repositories > are no longer supported and the installer > can easily mess with those for Lenny. > The only solution is to have all CDs for Etch available and run complete > offline installation. > > I guess the NetBSD option is more up to date here.
I have tried the recent NetBSD and it boots without problems, however I can't configure networking to install via FTP/HTTP. Strangely, I don't get question about DHCP. I think it's unrelated to SPARC support discussed in this thread, so I posted my full story to the QEMU forum: http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5949 Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org Member of ACCU, http://accu.org
