G'Day, Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear you finally got it working.
N.B. you may wish to repost the question about xfs-xtt with a new subject, it should get better attention, sorry I can't help with the last question. Best Regards, Peter Firmstone. On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, m.nine.six wrote: > hi, > > finally i was able to boot my box. but the problems go on... > > i have installed the Xsun as xserver and i want to use a network wide > true-type font server (xfs-xtt). but the doc tells me that i don't need > any configuration for Xsun. so how can i tell Xsun that it have to ask > for the fonts on an other server?? the only thing that X tells me is > that the font folders doesn't exist. > > on an intel box i can give the font server over the /etc/X11/XF86Config > file. but on sparc??? > > > also as i told, finally i was able too boot my box so those was the > problems and the solutions: > > - the server must have enabled rarp, arp and tftp that the sun box will > be able to fetch the kernel. > - the kernel must be on a.out format the the sun box can execute it. > so you have to gunzip the default debian kernel and then make a aout > file with the elftoaout utility. > - the standard debian kernel does not include kernel-ip-config so that > the linux kernel will fetch the net configs from bootp or a dhcp server. > so for first your first boot you have to give the parameters "boot net > ip=<ip-addr> nfsroot=<server-addr>:<folder-name>". if you only give the > nfsroot it will give you the following error: "RPC: sendmsg returned > error 51". > - so after starting your debian linux compile your new kernel with > enabled nfsroot, kernel-auto-conf and more..... and don't forget to make > a new aout kernel with the elftoaout utility! > > also thanks to all that helped me in the past few days and nights.... > > > thanks in advance, > regards, > alias m.nine.six. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
