On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Kris Boulez wrote: > Quoting Derrick J Brashear ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well, I'd like to think I solved at least one problem in the last week. > > For those of you with SS5/170 (Turbosparc) machines, there's a kernel at > > ftp://ftp.dementia.org/pub/linux/2.0.35-turbosparc, along with modules > > for it. The patches have been checked into the CVS tree and will be in > > the next snapshot (which hopefully will be when there's a handle on the > > egcs/sun4c/esp problems) > > > > Try it out with your favorite Turbosparc. > > How does one go about installing this kernel on a virgin disk (no linux > yet). With other words: does someone has a bootable image that I can > use to install a complete distribution from ? (I just got a second HD > for my SS5/170 and would like to install Linux on it).
I assume that you have figured this out already. My replied is intended for others who try to do the same thing. Basically, you would use the current image disk. It is "disks-sparc/1998-05-25" at the time of this message. After you created the boot disk, you would copy the new Turbosparc kernel and its System.map file to the boot disk (make sure you use the same file name as the existing disk). You will copy the module tarball to the driver disk. By the way, the current Turbosparc kernel is in ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/Sparc/kernel/v2.0/980805/. This newer kernel works for me. It appears that there is some timing problem on the boot script. It tried to eject the floppy too soon before the root disk prompt message. But a paper clip worked very well for me. ============================================================================= To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
