I'm trying a Debian installation again on an IPX with a Weitek
Power up chip. I reinstalled Debian (I'd done this before a year
and a half ago) with the stock CPU in the machine without too much
trouble, though I had to dig up an old debian-sparc note about padding
tftpboot.img with 3
Hi all.
There seem to be quite a few problems with the sparc port, and I'm more
than happy to help - but this list seems to be almost dead. No one with
an 'air of authority' is around here...
I see the following problems with my SS2:
1) The boot disks don't work. Not an issue for me, but
I've had no problems with the boot disks on a Sparc 5. Just figured i'd
let everyone know. ;)
What I would like, and can't find, is a graphical Xclient. I tried just
tossing in Redhats CG6 client, but it didn't seem to work too well, and I
don't have the time right now to play with it. Any
You didn't Cc: your reply back to the list. In general, you should, since
my answers will be valuable to others. I am taking the liberty of Cc:ing
this all back to the list now.
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Michael Mattice wrote:
Jules Bean writes:
I see the following problems with my SS2:
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Chris Trainor wrote:
I've had no problems with the boot disks on a Sparc 5. Just figured i'd
let everyone know. ;)
What I would like, and can't find, is a graphical Xclient. I tried just
tossing in Redhats CG6 client, but it didn't seem to work too well, and I
OK, I found where to get the Xserver. I figured i'd just repost it here
again. ;)
ftp.netg.se:/pub/Linux/sparc/X
Has the deb packages for XSUN (CG3/6,etc) XSUN24 (zx, other 24bpp cards)
and Mono.
--Chris
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of unsubscribe.
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jules I'm glad I have a second. I now would like some response
Jules from the people who got the port as far as it is, so I know
Jules the current status of things...
Before you can get terribly far at all, you need a perl package (most
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jules Huh?
Jules Perl works!
Wow, just found it in my mirror - guess I should look there more often.
The FPE problem still exists though
Jules I have 201 packages on my debian-sparc machine... including
Jules perl, X, ssh,
Thank god...
This list has been dead for a while. With the way the redhat sparc 5.0
release went i was afraid debian-sparc was going to go the way of the
dodo.
Let's get going...
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank god...
This list has been dead for a while. With the way the redhat sparc 5.0
release went i was afraid debian-sparc was going to go the way of the
dodo.
Let's get going...
I hereby declare that I shall do all that is in my power to further
Debian-sparc.
Of course, since I'm stuck on
Everything is working mostly OK for me. I only have a few SunIPC's to play
with, and am waiting on a couple of large SCSI Hdd's for them before I can
go too mad.
The boot disks work fine on my IPC's too by the way.
Richard Parkinson Ph 64 7 8399090
11 matches
Mail list logo
