Re: Current working ISO installer for sun4u
Jonathan Pallant <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:54:44 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.sparc |
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--Apple-Mail-C97A1747-50FE-40E1-B912-E3A34B06FB2E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 18 Mar 2026, at 16:36, Mike Tremaine <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFI wanted to do a fresh install of debian sparc, what is the most r= ecent installer image that is likely to work on Sun Ultra 5/10 workstation? I= think the laat one I tried was in the 10.0 release. I tried [1] recently, but it wouldn=E2=80=99t boot in 256 MiB of RAM on my U= ltra 5. I think it needs 512 MiB due to the large initrd. I recall it worked= OK on an Ultra 80 with 3 GiB RAM though. - JP [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-12-06/debian-13.= 0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso --Apple-Mail-C97A1747-50FE-40E1-B912-E3A34B06FB2E Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html class=3D"apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equi= v=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body dir=3D= "auto">On 18 Mar 2026, at 16:36, Mike Tremaine <[email protected]> w= rote:<br><div dir=3D"ltr"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><br></blockquote></div><= blockquote type=3D"cite"><div dir=3D"ltr">=EF=BB=BF<span>I wanted to do a fr= esh install of debian sparc, what is the most recent installer image that is= likely to work on Sun Ultra 5/10 workstation? I think the laat one I tried w= as in the 10.0 release.</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>I tried [1]&nb= sp;recently, but it wouldn=E2=80=99t boot in 256 MiB of RAM on my Ultra 5. I= think it needs 512 MiB due to the large initrd. I recall it worked OK on an= Ultra 80 with 3 GiB RAM though.</div><div><br></div><div>- JP</div><div><br= ></div><div>[1] <a href=3D"https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/sna= pshots/2025-12-06/debian-13.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso">https://cdimage.debia= n.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-12-06/debian-13.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso= </a></div><div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-C97A1747-50FE-40E1-B912-E3A34B06FB2E--