Re: A good install on a SS2

1998-07-24 Thread Dave Broudy
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Dave Broudy wrote: With my cg6, I have no problems with vc's switch, or with keymaps getting messed up. Humph. Damn you :) It's a dual slot, probably older and slightly different, maybe that's why? What is the version of your

RE: Ack! tftpboot.img - Whats the point?

1998-07-24 Thread Richard
I did something similar to you. Tftp image, ifconfig and route add. Then I NFS mounted the bas e modules, went back to the install screen and away it went. I never looked to see if there was an FTP or anything, but NFS worked great. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sparc status/my two cents

1998-07-24 Thread Dinh-Tuan . Pham
Derrick J Brashear writes: I've been meaning to have a look at it, I just haven't had the time yet. The repeat delay does seem rather short (I counted about 0.2 s), and as far as I can tell it's kernel related (though, as I said, I haven't really had the time to look at it yet).

Re: sparc autocompile

1998-07-24 Thread Johnie Ingram
Jonas == Jonas Oberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hiyas, have you done any compilations for sparc lately? I have you done any compilations for sparc lately? I havn't seen anything of your autocompile report :-) If you are compiling, it would be nice to know what you are compiling so we don't

Re: Web Pages for debian-sparc?

1998-07-24 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I propose: Someone is given write access to the web page source (Jules I assume). You are given your own subdirectory, /sparc which is webwml/english/sparc in CVS, in which you create your own pages (using wml. Don't worry, this will

Re: Trivial programs =)

1998-07-24 Thread Ben Bell
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 04:42:37PM +0200, Anders Hammarquist wrote: And what's up with gpm losing control of the mouse when xdm/Xwindows is running? Is that the poor handling of the tty's mentioned here earlier? Is that a kernel problem? Handled in the unstable kernel tree? Probably gpm

Re: A good install on a SS2

1998-07-24 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Dave Broudy wrote: promlib: Version 2 Revision 2 prom: 2.6 I'm on 2.4 on both machines here. I guess the tftp problem was fixed in .5 or .6. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Ack! tftpboot.img - Whats the point?

1998-07-24 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 11:16:24AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok...I am trying to install on an effectivly diskless Sun IPC... as I said in an earlier message...I got it to boot with tftpboot.img. I am very happy about this but...it is kind of

Re: Problems with SMP Linux on dual processor sparc 20

1998-07-24 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Wolfgang Leideck wrote: Hello. On 7. Jul i wrote that i have installed the current snapshot of the v2.0 kernel. I want it recompile with SMP-Option on. If i want to boot the kernel i got following uncompressing ... PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5 Interrupt level 15 Normaly

Re: Web Pages for debian-sparc?

1998-07-24 Thread treacy
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I propose: Someone is given write access to the web page source (Jules I assume). You are given your own subdirectory, /sparc which is webwml/english/sparc in CVS, in which you create your own pages (using wml. Don't worry, this

Re: sparc autocompile

1998-07-24 Thread Matt Carter
Johnie Ingram wrote: editors nvi 1.79-5 BAD ../ex/ex_script.c:27: sys/stropts.h: No such file I have this built. New to the linux developer thing so I will spend this weekend trying to figure out to make a package ? out of what I have. Matt --

Re: Ack! tftpboot.img - Whats the point?

1998-07-24 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
ahh much easier! I went to the next vc and did an ifconfig...I forgot all about ass route(per earlier response) and I didn't even think of configure ^^ Man I should not type before I am awake...not only did I mis spell add as assI got it ass backwards too... I know its

sparc autocompile

1998-07-24 Thread Jaldhar H.Vyas
It's good to see the sparc effort going again! I've just uploaded the following packages to master: imap 4.2-1 main/mail [This fixes an critical security bug] wwwcount 2.4-7 non-free/web pppupd 0.23-8 main/net [Not actually tested on sparc] xmbase-grok 1.4.1-1 main/x11 [Compiles fine but

Re: sparc autocompile

1998-07-24 Thread Jonas Oberg
It's good to see the sparc effort going again! I've just uploaded the following packages to master: Great. I was waiting for imap 4.2 :-) I gave zsh another shot today but the f'ing thing has gotten so large that my poor little ELC just run out of memory (I've got a fix in the mail, aka. more

SunOS emulation

1998-07-24 Thread Dave Broudy
I have a question about SunOS emulation. I got the libraries from a SunOS machine, along with ld.so and ld.so.cache, all installed under /usr/gnemul/sunos/{usr/lib, etc} Do I also need to do any sort of ldconfig? And iBCS2 is only for Solaris binaries (this is what the RedHat list archives seem

Re: SunOS emulation

1998-07-24 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 03:09:09PM -0400, Dave Broudy wrote: I have a question about SunOS emulation. I got the libraries from a SunOS machine, along with ld.so and ld.so.cache, all installed under /usr/gnemul/sunos/{usr/lib, etc} Do I also need to do any sort of ldconfig? And iBCS2 is only

Re: SunOS emulation

1998-07-24 Thread Dave Broudy
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: wrong printf() is a function which is part of the c language... therefore you need libc. in fact,...one would be hard pressed to write a C program which could run without libc (and I am not counting staticly linked against libc either ;)