Hi all, To those who have been following, the story has a happy sort of, ending. It turns out that the SS20 that I was trying to resurrect had a bad ram stick in it. A friend of mine met me at a Linux user group meeting in Dallas Saturday and he had several versions of SUSE that were known good. When He tried to install 7.3 he got some really weird error messages early in the install. He said that it only needed 64M of ram to install and the machine had 128M in it. I remembered getting one of the sticks from a "flea market" guy so I pulled two of them out and the install went fine after that. I have several other SS20's that I can now "debug" using the one good one buy doing a parts swap and getting rid of the hardware that doesn't work. By the way, the bad ram stick passed the diag at the command prompt (OK) level.
thanks all, charles.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "***** charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:29 PM Subject: Re: (forw) Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's? > To Joshua - yes I am subscribed, so got it. > don't know how to use the .bz2 file > but I did get it. > > To all others - thanks for the posts, I will try > to do the first cd correctly this time. > > I have a friend who has a cable modem. He > can download a whole cd (about 650M) in > less than an hour. I did get the ISO's but for > some reason the cd's that I made, especially > the first one of the Debian/SPARC group > will not boot. I think I created it incorrectly. > Next time I will try Nero on a PC to see if > I can get the ISO's to burn correctly so the > cd is bootable. The files did pass the MD5 > sum checks so I know the downloads were > ok and not corrupted. > > thanks again to all, > charles..... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joshua Uziel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:23 PM > Subject: (forw) Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's? > > > > If I wasn't a dumbass, I would have noticed the "JUNK". I assume you're > > subscribed to the list and will get it that way anyways, but just in > > case, here it is... > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Joshua Uziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > > > From: Joshua Uziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: ***** charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's? > > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:10:52 -0800 > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i > > > > * ***** charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030313 13:01]: > > > From what I understand, the latest stable Debian for Sparc > > > is 3r1 and there is 6 cd's for it if I get the whole thing. What > > > I need to know if I download just the first one, can I get > > > enough of Linux on my SS20 to come up to a command > > > prompt when I am done? Or, what is the minimal number > > > of cd's I need to download and burn to get a minimal install > > > with dialup networking going? > > > > Just the first CD will do for a base installation. Better yet, grab > > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso.bz2 > > and use that to install the base over the network. I used it on an SS20 > > a few days ago, and it's a 3MB download instead of a 600MB+ one. :) > > > > If you want to do the entire base installation locally, though, the CDs > > are the way to go. Quite often, though, I'm finding myself downloading > > a bunch of package with the first apt-get upgrade after installing off > > CDs that are installed in the first place if I install over the network. > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
