Debian on UltraSparc II
We already have one Sun Sparc running at Robocup @ TUG:
mika@robosparc ~ % cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire) fpu : UltraSparc I integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 1 prom : 3.1.3 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 1 ncpus active : 1 Cpu0Bogo : 397.31 Cpu0ClkTck : 000000000bebc200 MMU Type : Spitfire
Now we got another one and I’d like to document the necessary steps for installing Debian on such a box (in case Mabu and me have to install a third one ;-)):
mika@sunkist ~ % cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) fpu : UltraSparc II integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 7 prom : 3.7.0 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 1 ncpus active : 1 Cpu0Bogo : 589.82 Cpu0ClkTck : 0000000011a49a00 MMU Type : Spitfire
We used the netboot installer (as CD-ROM did not work – as usual ;-)) to install Debian-Sparc. We configured rarpd (adjust /etc/ethers) and atftpd (provide the netboot image, in our case it was /opt/tftpboot/ and create a symlink based on the mac address of the computer you want to install).
Press Stop-A to interrupt the booting sequence, use ‘boot net’ to boot via network and then it’s pretty straight forward. d-i worked without any serious problems, just the console was somewhat b0rken. After installing GNU screen and zsh and grml‘s configuration files working on the box is comfortable. 8-)
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