[rescue] Installing OS on Sun Ultra 25 workstation

[Cory Smelosky]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Sean Tedio wrote:

> So now that this system seems to be running (thanks again) it would be
> nice to get an OS installed. I downloaded and burned the image located
> here:
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/sparc/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-sparc-netinst.iso
>
> I first put the image on a usb stick (using unetbootin) but I couldn't
> see the usb stick when doing a 'show-disks':
>
> ok show-disks
> a) /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 9/pci at 0/scsi at 1/disk
> b) /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0/ide at 1f/cdrom
> c) /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0/ide at 1f/disk
> q) NO SELECTION
>
> I installed 2 500GB SATA drives so I was also surprised to only see 1 scsi disk.
>
> So then I burned the image to a CD and tried to boot it:
>
> ok boot cdrom
> Boot device: /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0/ide at 1f/cdrom at 0,0:f  File and args:
> Can't read disk label.
> Can't open disk label package
>
> Can't open boot device
>
> So now I'm stuck. While I'm here I might as well ask should I be
> looking at something like OpenIndiana instead of Linux?
>

Possibly.  Try the disk<number of sdrom as per probe-scsi>:f instead of 
cdrom.

> Thanks,
>
> -Sean
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