Re: S7-2 Debian 12 ISO Installation via NFS

On 9/25/25 15:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-09-25 at 15:34 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On 9/25/25 11:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>>
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>>>> On Sep 25, 2025, at 4:33 PM, Tony Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> It is resolved, I helped Dennis install via USB.
>>
>> We do indeed have a revision of Solaris 11.4 running on that machine.
>> It is a bit weird that I can not bootstrap GCC on it yet but at least

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> I'm not sure what you're doing wrong but GCC 

Me neither. My friend Matthew managed to get it built after a second try
but between the two of us there have been seven attempts and only one
success. So something is strange. Also, Solaris is sort of off topic.
The real point here is that the hardware seems to work.


> 
> If you've got Solaris running, you can just install it inside an LDOM.
> 
> See: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Creating_an_LDOM_to_install_Debian_in
> 

I think bare metal is the way to go here. Reduce any possible
complications. That last sentence is almost a joke at this point.