On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:56:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:52:21AM +0200, Aaron Scheiner wrote: > > My home network has DHCP server on it (Smoothwall) and two other > > machines running Ubuntu. One of the Ubuntu machines has been configured > > as a TFTP server (used it to hack a Mikrotik router a while back). In > > other words, I should(?) have the environment to boot this Sun machine > > via the network. > > > > As for the kernel, I found a guide today that should put me on the right > > track : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CustomKernel . > > > > I'll work on it a little later today :) . > > While we're at it, you mentioned earlier that you tried Ubuntu Dapper (6.06) > with 2.6.15 which also failed miserably - Ubuntu shipped a few more sparc > releases other than that one, so you may get lucky with another one. A quick > Google tells me that their 7.04 and 7.10 releases still had sparc, so try > and find installer images from those. Oddly enough, once I actually figured out the right place to look on the web site, I could also easily find newer ones: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/hardy/release/ubuntu-8.04.1-server-sparc.iso http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/intrepid/release/ubuntu-8.10-server-sparc.iso http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/jaunty/release/ubuntu-9.04-server-sparc.iso http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/karmic/release/ubuntu-9.10-server-sparc.iso -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
