Ubuntu 9.04 Installation Issue on SUN Netra T1 105
 

Hi,

I am new to this and just got a SUN Netra 440MHz T1 105 with 512MB RAM, 2 19G SCSI drives and a IDE CDROM.

I am having trouble loading Ubuntu 9.05 server iso via the CDROM. The CDROM driver does not get found and the installation aborts. The CDROM is a 24x toshiba XM-7002B.

I can load the old Ubuntu server 7.10 but cannot update it. (would need some help to do that, too).

Looking for some help.

Can it boot from usb? If so you can always put ubuntu on a USB key and boot from that.

I am afraid that the Netra t1 does not have a USB.

If I recall rightly you should be able to update the 7.10 by just inserting the ubuntu 9.xx version.
It would pop up a message about doing a distro upgrade.

Alternative method would be again in ubuntu 7 to configure apt-get to use the CDROM as a local repository and update from it.
you would need to change the apt sources file to use the CD.

you can look at these pages whioch offer examples to follow:
There is lots of inmformation about performing an upgrade.
Using an ISO image instead of a cd also works: http://www.munz.li/?p=10
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/upgrade-ub...ty-fawn-2.html
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techbl...buntu_desktop/

thanks for the hints. I got 8.04 loaded and it is working well after having changed the sources.list file to reflect the 'old-releases' versus the 'us.archive' pointers.

9.04 loads but I and having network issues: it seems that the driver is no longer there. Not sure why.

I got an inexpensive 2-port USB PCI card and put it into the Netra T1 lot. 'dmesg' seems to find it (ie the drivers seem to be there). However, how do I mount it, ie what is the /dev/??? that I use?

I had to configure the ide-cdrom in 'lam'.

Thanks for the help.