hi there, deb is great. i downloaded the new release 1 of woody 3 and everything is fine. with a little trick i was also able to install it on a scsidisk with an adaptec 19160 - i had to mount my previous root partition first before i could load modules....what a luck i got an ide hdd also....i dont know how this can be fixed, but i should have load modules for the unsuopported devices before having a root-partition, ot a supported ide-device with a writeable mini-root, just for install *g* installation was fine and very fast on my u5/333/512 and u160 scsi, wow - a rocket. after finishing install i was asked to boot......ok, but my sun is only booting from ide0. i tried to add some devaliases on my boot-prompt, e.g. devalias scsi0 /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/... somehting like ide, but i got no results, just 'cannot find boot-device' from the prom. i tried it with 'probe-scsi-all' but there was no output..... is this command supported on my u5? (bp 3.15 i think) i read about scsi and u5 and saw there may only be symbios controllers are supported on this platform... this questions may be off-topic in this list, but are a result of my tests *g* sorry for my bad english. but as a good result, i learned from debian how to do a good boot and silo-config, also how to create a sun disk label, .... a hint to use the hardware defaults would be fine... my disk had 1gb at first...hmm (i thought it was 9) maybe i can write a better installation howto for gentoo *ggg*, theire theory is quite different from practice. uh.
thanks folks volker www.raketenclub.de www.erdtrabant.de <zitiere wer="Andrew Clayton"> > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:52, v.augustin wrote: >> hi, >> >> i got woody 3 some timne ago and typed linux at the >> silo-prompt.....(woody >> 3 for sparc) >> but my sun u5 cant find sparc64.gz for installing...... >> i take a loiok on the cd and there is no sparc64.gz in /boot >> > > There is a work around for this... I don't remember what it is off > hand... if you search the list archives.. you should find it. > > >> >> what about that problem? is it fixed in woody3R1 ????? > > Yep.. works on my Ultra 1 at least. > > >> is it worth downloading it? >> or is it like gentoo....were installdocu is really different from >> practice? i thought it was DEBIAN *g* >> >> argh, can somebody please help me before i get crazy? >> ;-) >> thanks in advance, >> volker >> > > > -- > Andrew Clayton > >
