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minhtang
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:43 am    Post subject: SunBlade 100 Booting Question Reply with quote

Hi All,

I have a SunBlade 100 sitting around and I am planning to install Gentoo on it. The last time I tried to boot the Debian 3.0 cd, the system said that the Debian CD has a bad magic block number and so it won't boot. I heard that Sparc requires that the cdrom file structure must have 6 slices ? So I wonder whether downloading the Gentoo GRP iso and burning to a CD-R will Just Work, or do I have to perform some exotic/erotic black magic on the CD-R ? TIA...
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bazik
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It will work. I know at least 3 people running Gentoo on a Blade100 :)

Make sure you use the latest LiveCD:

gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-08Sep2003-cd1.iso (424 MB, w/ GRP)

gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-31Aug2003.iso.bz2 (43 MB, same as above but w/o GRP)
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:16 pm    Post subject: I just installed on a blade 100 this weekend Reply with quote

Everything seems to work beautifully. Do a search through the forums for reference_clock- i had to add that in as an option to my xf86config in order for x to work. Other than that everything was by the install guide.
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