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README for Debian 2.1 CD installation.
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To boot the installation system from CD, you will need to insert
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either CD#1 in your CD-ROM drive, drop to the PROM prompt (Stop-A),
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and enter: "boot cdrom" (if you have an older PROM, you may have to
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use "b sd(0,6,0)" instead).
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This CD should boot on sun4c, sun4m, and sun4u systems. At the silo
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prompt you will be given a choice of linux or linux-2.2.1 (if you just
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press return, you get linux). The former provides the officially
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supported 2.0.35 kernel, and the latter provides a 2.2.1 kernel.
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Some sun4m systems have been known to not boot the 2.0.35 kernel, so if it
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locks up while the background is still white, try the 2.2.1 kernel.
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There is no 2.0.35 kernel for Ultras, so on those machines you will get
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the 2.2.1 kernel regardless of what you select.
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If your system will not boot from CD, there are other options:
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1. Make boot floppies from the images on the first CD, in the directory
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/dists/stable/main/dists-sparc/current. The program rawrite2.exe in
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the /tools directory will write the floppy images under DOS. e.g.
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cd /dists/stable/main/disks-sparc/current
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rawrite2 -f resc1440.bin -d a:
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Under Unix, this can be done with "dd" or "cat" (see the documentation
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in the /install directory).
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2. Use tftp booting (documented in the /install directory). The tftp
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boot images are also in /dists/stable/main/dists-sparc/current. The
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file tftpboot.img supports 32-bit sparc machines and uses a 2.0 kernel
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and the file tftpboot-2.2.1.img supports all sparc machines and
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uses a 2.2.1 kernel.
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See /install/install.txt for more information, and /README.multicd for
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last-minute information about the multi-cd installation method.
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The install documentation in /install was up to date when this CD image
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was created. The Debian web site has the most up-to-date information at
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http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc
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which may document issues that were discovered after these CD images
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were created.
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Steve Dunham <dunham@debian.org>
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March 6, 1999
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