Thanks for the help.
I had read the debian manual before attempting the install. I was asking 
  what my next step would be. I was hoping that I would be able to get 
away with not net booting, but I guess that can not be helped. More 
question will hopelfully not follow, but I know nothing about setting up 
dhcp, so...


Thanks for the help.

Kevin Brown wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> Might I suggest you take a look at the Debian installation instructions:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd 
> 
> 
> Contains the following note that might pertain to your system:
> Note that some problems have been reported on Sun4m (e.g., Sparc 10s and 
> Sparc 20s) systems booting from CD-ROM.
> 
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