I gave up trying to get Gentoo installed on my Sun Ultra 5. Instead I downloaded the netinst CD for Debian Sparc and loaded that instead. Booted, and let the installer do its thing.

I’m currently running the 2.4.27-2-sparc64 kernel and everything seems to be working. Still getting some odd hard drive errors on boot (probably due to my botched Sun disk label), but other than that… so far so good.

As a side note, I added a new list of hostnames to the Naming Schemes website tonight. Enjoy.

Update: According to trave11er in #debian-sparc, the hard drive errors are nothing to worry about and should be ignored. They supposedly don’t show up with a 2.6.x kernel, so I’m downloading the Debian Testing release now. Time to reinstall…. again.

Another update: It worked. I’m now running Debian Testing (codename “etch”) with a 2.6.12-1-sparc64 kernel. No more hard drive errors during boot. So far so good.

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