Its got a NIC right?  You can't set up a netboot install?

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-tftp

You might be able to manage this type of install from a Knoppix CD on your 
laptop if you don't have other resources.  If Knoppix has tftp, rarp, bootp, and 
dhcpd and you can dedicate a little space on a partition for some files (perhaps 
in RAMDISK) to boot from, you might be OK ... that is assuming you also have an 
internet connection as well.  I guess there is a possibility that there is a 
reason you can't boot from the install CD you have made but you CAN read from 
it, this might make an internet connection unnecessary ... boot from network ... 
install from CD.

If you are really really nice and patient someone might set up a netinstall 
situation for stammtisch ... if you don't have it working by then.

Austin


Robert Wultsch wrote:
> My saga continues...
> 
> I burned the iso of Debian disk one for sparc, stuck it in the cdrom, 
> got the ok prompt and typed:
> "boot cdrom"
> to which it returned
> "Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@6,0:d File and 
> args:
> 
> Can't open boot device"
> 
> I am not sure where to go from here. Does anyone know if I need to use a 
> boot floppy or what?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS this is a sun sparcstation 20
> 
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