On 7/5/22 9:15 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
Hello,
is there a sparc64 debian installer image available somewhere that i
could write with dd to a hdd/ssd and boot from it?
Regards,
Connor
Hi Connor,
As I recall, the last time I tried to install Debian SID from the Debian installer CD, it did not recognize my CD drive (despite having just
booted the CD from that drive). So I copied the entire installation CD
to a spare 1 GB disk (something like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/sdb
bs=64k"). I was then able to boot from that disk and proceeded to a full installation. My existing installation was Debian 7.8, which was able to recognize the CD drive.
-Stan
Thank you Stan, this looks promising and easy enough.
Another method i found working, but not as convenient as the above, is
to install grub2 on another system with a working cdrom and then to
add an iso residing on an existing partition as menuenty in grub.
The only difference compared to x86/64 are the needed modules and the adressing of the drive, like:
menuentry "Debian ISO" {
set isofile="/path/to/file/name-of-iso-file-.iso"
insmod gzio
insmod part_sun
insmod <yourfilesystem_needed e.g. ext2/xfs>
loopback loop (ieee1275/disk, sun1)$isofile
echo "Starting $isofile..."
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinux iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.gz
}
Regards,
Connor
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:46 PM Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 7/5/22 9:15 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
Hello,
is there a sparc64 debian installer image available somewhere that i could write with dd to a hdd/ssd and boot from it?
Regards,
Connor
Hi Connor,
As I recall, the last time I tried to install Debian SID from the Debian installer CD, it did not recognize my CD drive (despite having just
booted the CD from that drive). So I copied the entire installation CD
to a spare 1 GB disk (something like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/sdb bs=64k"). I was then able to boot from that disk and proceeded to a full installation. My existing installation was Debian 7.8, which was able to recognize the CD drive.
-Stan
Sorry..obvious error in my last post, resulting from a cut-paste-mix
of a grub2 iso-boot tutorial...
"casper" should be "install"...or wherever the kernel and initrd
reside in the iso.
linux (loop)/install/vmlinux iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash
initrd (loop)/install/casper/initrd.gz
Regards,
Connor
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 4:42 PM Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Stan, this looks promising and easy enough.
Another method i found working, but not as convenient as the above, is
to install grub2 on another system with a working cdrom and then to
add an iso residing on an existing partition as menuenty in grub.
The only difference compared to x86/64 are the needed modules and the adressing of the drive, like:
menuentry "Debian ISO" {
set isofile="/path/to/file/name-of-iso-file-.iso"
insmod gzio
insmod part_sun
insmod <yourfilesystem_needed e.g. ext2/xfs>
loopback loop (ieee1275/disk, sun1)$isofile
echo "Starting $isofile..."
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinux iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.gz
}
Regards,
Connor
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:46 PM Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 7/5/22 9:15 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
Hello,
is there a sparc64 debian installer image available somewhere that i could write with dd to a hdd/ssd and boot from it?
Regards,
Connor
Hi Connor,
As I recall, the last time I tried to install Debian SID from the Debian installer CD, it did not recognize my CD drive (despite having just booted the CD from that drive). So I copied the entire installation CD
to a spare 1 GB disk (something like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/sdb bs=64k"). I was then able to boot from that disk and proceeded to a full installation. My existing installation was Debian 7.8, which was able to recognize the CD drive.
-Stan
On 7/12/22 8:15 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
Hello again,
i had mixed results for now with the installation on a T1000 using the dd'ed netinstall iso.
All went seemingly well until suddenly some files on the debian
mirrors could not be found and i had to ignore it and went with a base system.
The message was "Downloading a file failed" during the step "Configure
the package manager".
I'm not sure how to fix that. As I recall, the default location for the mirrors worked the last time I installed Debian SID.
I'm using this now for my /etc/apt/sources.list:
# binary default
deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unstable main
deb http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd/ unstable main
deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main
# contrib and non-free arch:all packages (i.e. firmware)
deb [arch=all] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable contrib non-free
# source
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd/ buildd-unstable main
Then at the end it could not install grub to the target hdd. Message
was "The 'grub-ieee1275' package failed to install into /target/.
How can i find the cause of it and manually correct it and install
grub from the rescue system?
I use SILO, so I'm not able to help. I did test a default installation a
few months ago that included GRUB, and that worked on my Ultra-30.
Adrian usually asks which installation CD you are using and for a copy
of the installation log.
(also does anyone know the key combination to switch console tabs in
the installer when the serial connection runs over the screen
utility?)
Regards,
Connor
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 5:43 PM Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry..obvious error in my last post, resulting from a cut-paste-mix
of a grub2 iso-boot tutorial...
"casper" should be "install"...or wherever the kernel and initrd
reside in the iso.
linux (loop)/install/vmlinux iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash
initrd (loop)/install/casper/initrd.gz
Regards,
Connor
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 4:42 PM Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Stan, this looks promising and easy enough.
Another method i found working, but not as convenient as the above, is >>> to install grub2 on another system with a working cdrom and then to
add an iso residing on an existing partition as menuenty in grub.
The only difference compared to x86/64 are the needed modules and the
adressing of the drive, like:
menuentry "Debian ISO" {
set isofile="/path/to/file/name-of-iso-file-.iso"
insmod gzio
insmod part_sun
insmod <yourfilesystem_needed e.g. ext2/xfs>
loopback loop (ieee1275/disk, sun1)$isofile
echo "Starting $isofile..."
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinux iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.gz
}
Regards,
Connor
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:46 PM Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>
On 7/5/22 9:15 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
Hello,
is there a sparc64 debian installer image available somewhere that i >>>>> could write with dd to a hdd/ssd and boot from it?
Regards,
Connor
Hi Connor,
As I recall, the last time I tried to install Debian SID from the Debian >>>> installer CD, it did not recognize my CD drive (despite having just
booted the CD from that drive). So I copied the entire installation CD >>>> to a spare 1 GB disk (something like "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/sdb
bs=64k"). I was then able to boot from that disk and proceeded to a full >>>> installation. My existing installation was Debian 7.8, which was able to >>>> recognize the CD drive.
-Stan
On Jul 14, 2022, at 8:07 PM, Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote:
do you or someone reading this know how to change tabs in the
installer on sparc64 in order to get to the logfile?
Ctrl+a <n> and <p> should work.
See the manpage of GNU screen.
Adrian
On Jul 14, 2022, at 8:07 PM, Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote:
do you or someone reading this know how to change tabs in the
installer on sparc64 in order to get to the logfile?
On Jul 12, 2022, at 4:16 PM, Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote:
How can i find the cause of it and manually correct it and install
grub from the rescue system?
(also does anyone know the key combination to switch console tabs in
the installer when the serial connection runs over the screen
utility?)
On Jul 14, 2022, at 9:03 PM, Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote: >>
ctrl+a <n> or <p> do not work. I get a message of "no other window".
I am using screen like this. to connect: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600,cs8
Don’t use “screen” as a terminal program, use “minicom”. Your local screen session intercepts the escape sequences in the running debian-installer’s screen session.
On Jul 14, 2022, at 9:03 PM, Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote:
ctrl+a <n> or <p> do not work. I get a message of "no other window".
I am using screen like this. to connect: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600,cs8
Don’t use “screen” as a terminal program, use “minicom”. Your local
screen session intercepts the escape sequences in the running
debian-installer’s screen session.
It's ok to use screen. Since ^A is escaped by the upper screen instance,
the key sequence becomes
Ctrl-a a n
Alright, Ctrl-a a n works...thanks!
I also might have figured out my installation problem...my netinstall
cd is to old and doesn't have the required 2022 debian signing keys
for the repositories.
While network access works, it seems to refuse to connect/install from
the debian mirror.
Can i somehow add the needed keys in a running installer environment? (apt-key or gpg commands seem to be not available in the installer?)
(The reason i am using older installation images are machines that
have problems with newer kernels...)
On 7/14/22 21:57, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Don’t use “screen” as a terminal program, use “minicom”. Your local
screen session intercepts the escape sequences in the running
debian-installer’s screen session.
It's ok to use screen. Since ^A is escaped by the upper screen instance, the key sequence becomes
Ctrl-a a n
Good to know, thanks!
Adrian
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