[CORRECTION] Re: disk size mismatch issue during install on ultra1

2005-04-26 Thread foo_bar_baz_boo-deb
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc bs=1M count=1 to zorch the disk label. Sorry about that! HTH! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One trick to consider. If it's not a boot disk, use an MSDOS / PC label. The kernel can still read it and it's a lot less flaky than the Sun

Multimedia packages available

2005-04-26 Thread Christian Marillat
Hi, I did sparc packages for my multimedia repository (mplayer, lame, avidemux, transcode, pymusique, etc...) : http://hpisi.nerim.net/ http://debian.video.free.fr/ direct link to the packages : ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/unstable/main/binary-sparc/ Christian -- To

Re: Re: migration from sunOS/ultrasparc to linux/ultrasparc

2005-04-26 Thread Vincent 13
ok thanks for the answer it help me a lot. What linux (distribution and kernel) did you use for running your E4000 ? Is there some application li ke oracle running on it? Vincent De: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] co.uk A: Vincent 13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: migration fr om sunOS/ultrasparc

Re: Re: migration from sunOS/ultrasparc to linux/ultrasparc

2005-04-26 Thread inkubus
ok thanks for the answer it help me a lot. What linux (distribution and kernel) did you use for running your E4000 ? Debian! Hence being on the list :-) I've run 2.2.20, 2.4.18, 2.4.27, 2.6.8 and 2.6.11, mostly the ones that come with either Stable or Testing. Is there some application li

Re: WG: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-04-26 Thread David S. Miller
I tried everything I could and I can't get more then 6.6MB/sec out of the IDE disks on my Ultra10's. If anyone can quote better numbers on Solaris, or *BSD, or whatever, let me hear about it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: WG: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-04-26 Thread foo_bar_baz_boo-deb
What kind of benchmark did you run? It would be sort of silly if I didn't do a similar test. I will see if I can get Solaris benchmarks for you as well, but it will take a while. --- David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried everything I could and I can't get more then 6.6MB/sec out

Re: Status of Debian on Sun Blade 150

2005-04-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi Wiktor, On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: - The installer progreses up to the point where it wants to install a base system, but it is unable to do so. The error diplayed is: [!!] Install the base system Cannot install Debian The installer cannot figure out how to install Debian.

Re: WG: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-04-26 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:35:37 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of benchmark did you run? It would be sort of silly if I didn't do a similar test. /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda which does an uncached O_DIRECT 20MB read from the IDE disk, it's the real disk bandwidth not a cached