At 22:37 +1000 3/28/05, Ben Stanley wrote:
Hi,
I have an old SparcStation IPX which used to run RedHat 6.1, and I
decided to see if I could get something reasonably modern running on it.
Well, I've tried Splack 8 [0], and while it worked, its rather old.
Splack 10 beta had a lot of 'unimplemented
I am trying to install the stable debian in a sunblade100
with a 15GB HD. Is there any requirement regarding the size of / or
I can, say, partition my HD like this:
10GB /
1GB swap
2GB /var
2GB /tmp
I am asking because it seems to install the base correctly but when
it runs tasksel to
glory:
papaya:/etc# ls -l /home
total 8
drwxr-xr-x2 neko neko 4096 May 20 16:33 neko
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 26 10:36 users
papaya:/etc#
but I am still told that
Could not chdir to home directory /home/users/mauricio: No such file
or directory
So, I decided
At 08:35 -0400 4/21/04, Eric Nichols wrote:
Unfortunately it gets as far as the busybox errors and that's it. I
let it sit for 30 minutes...
Woody would seem to be the next obvious path but my floppy drive is
busted. Does anyone have a boot CD image that has the Woody
installer for SPARC?
At 14:22 +0200 4/21/04, Jan Houstek wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Eric Nichols wrote:
Needless to say I'm stuck. Is there a parameter I need to put in before
boot or will this work at all on this old box?
I use Woody with no problems on SS 5. Try it! (Moreover, it's not
difficult to switch
My solaris box has a proggie called pkginfo which shows which
packages I have currently installed in my machine:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]pkginfo
system BOLTpget pkg-get - CSW version
system CSWcommoncommon - common files and dirs for
CSW packages
application
I turn my IPX (running Debian Woody 3.0 r2). I ssh to it.
All is peachy. I go do groceries. When I come back, I find out it
went back to the openboot prompt. What is going on here? I stick my
hand behind the fan and it does not seem to be hot or anything. What
else should I check?
I rebooted my IPX and saw the following message in the console window:
Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
System Clock set. System local time is now Sun Mar 21 02:46:50 UTC 2004.
Calculating module dependencies... depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
Would sarge work in my IPX? If not, what would happen if I
had installed woody in my IPX and then changed stable to testing
in /etc/apt/sources.list?
I have a little IPX running debian 3 at home and have been
thinking on using it as my mail server. What I would like it to do
is to retrive my email from my different accounts out there (the one
I am using right now would be an example), make them avaiable so I
can check them either through
At 15:04 -0500 1/27/04, Ben Collins wrote:
Most people know by now that the Debian sparc64 kernel packages are way
out of date. I've been fighting with kernel sizes for awhile, and even
the current 2.4.21-smp image is too big too boot.
That's going to change over the next week. I just finished
At 12:52 -0600 1/21/04, Art Haas wrote:
Hi.
About a year ago I got a SparcStation 20. The machine has two internal
hard drives, each 1 gig. I put Debian Woody on it - worked like a champ
of course - and fiddled around with the machine for a while.
Unfortunately the disk space on that machine is
At 00:27 + 12/27/03, David Johnson wrote:
[...]
There are two possible ways to get around this: -
1. Boot into your system using a rescue disk, edit your silo.conf so that the
bootloader is installed onto sdb, then run silo to install the bootloader.
2. Change the device that the machine
Ok, I must be doing something wrong here: I have installed
postgresql using apt-get (as in apt-get install postgresql), but when
I say
ldconfig -v | grep libpgsql
it does not find libpgsql. How come? Heck, I put the output of
ldconfig -v in a file and then searched in it and still ended
At 11:22 + 12/10/03, Steven Hill wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to Linux and have only ever installed red hat through the
gui installer. I am interested to learn more about it and have
decided to install debian on a sparc IPX that I got free from work.
It has an Ethernet/scsi2 sbus card installed
So I decide to install aide instead of tripwire in my debian
box. I download it and find out it requires mhash. I then download
and install mhash, which places its libraries in /usr/local/lib:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/todo/aide-0.10$ ls /usr/local/lib/
libmhash.la libmhash.so
At 23:35 -0500 12/10/03, Leith Stevens wrote:
Why are you trying to compile it yourself... ?
apt-get install aide works well for me.
Leith
Mostly out of frustration. When I tried to do what you
suggested, I got:
katrina:/home/raub/todo/aide-0.10# apt-get install aide
Reading Package
Quick question: can I have more than one source for packages
in /etc/apt/sources.list?
Also, why wouldn't I be able to get zlib:
katrina:/home/raub/todo# apt-get install zlib
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package zlib has no available version, but exists in
Has anyone installed successfully tripwire in debian/sparc?
If so, could you give me some pointers? Thanks!
At 16:51 -0500 12/5/03, Ben Collins wrote:
What is going on here? Is it trying to install some 1GB worth of
files... and in /var/cache/apt/archives/ of all places? Why? I have
a nicely sized /usr but my /var is 128MB.
Try this:
cp -a /var/cache/apt /usr/local/apt
ln -s /usr/local/apt
I seemed to have installed debian in my IPX... at least so
ffar as the base system. It seems the trick was to make / smaller
than 1GB. Anyway, now I am in that step where it wants to install
the other packages. And, I am having a bit of an issue there. You
see, when I was asked to run
Just for the heck of it, I physically copied the silo.conf
file to /etc instead of just symlinking it:
# mv silo.conf silo.conf.link
# cp ../boot/silo.conf .
# ls -l silo.*
-rw-r--r--1 root root 2350 Dec 4 17:38 silo.conf
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 Dec 1 19:40
Ok, I am still confused. I booted from the cd, in rescue
mode, and then went to the shell to do some looking around:
# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0 3524 3151 373 89% /
/dev/sda1 3974908 76032
At 22:04 -0500 11/28/03, Ben Collins wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:06:40PM -0500, Mauricio wrote:
I just finished installing debian in my IPX. Well, almost.
When it is the time to make the disk bootable, this is the message I
am getting:
SILO wasn't able to install. You'll
At 12:44 -0500 11/29/03, Ben Collins wrote:
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:30:45PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote:
Ben Collins wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:06:40PM -0500, Mauricio wrote:
I just finished installing debian in my IPX. Well, almost.
When it is the time to make the disk
At 13:30 -0500 11/29/03, Ben Collins wrote:
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Mauricio wrote:
At 22:04 -0500 11/28/03, Ben Collins wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:06:40PM -0500, Mauricio wrote:
I just finished installing debian in my IPX. Well, almost.
When it is the time
I just finished installing debian in my IPX. Well, almost.
When it is the time to make the disk bootable, this is the message I
am getting:
SILO wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your
system if you create a boot floppy, but it won't be able to boot
without a floppy.
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:49:03 -0400
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
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Subject: tftpboot.img size (was: Re: Not having much luck installing
debian in my SS1+)
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At 02:12 -0700 10/20/03, David Huerta wrote:
Anyone know where I can find one? I've been searching google and all
I've found is complete sparc ISO images. Normally, I woiuld just get
the CD and boot from it, but I don't have the necessary cable to hook up
the drive to my Sparcstation IPC.
--
At 14:07 -0400 10/13/03, Ben Collins wrote:
RedHat doesn't acknowledge Aurora; SuSE openly doesn't support theirs;
Mandrake keeps theirs around on the ftp server. All are community
supported. Difference is, guys doing the ports actually have the
machines.
Not that I'm blasting
At 14:28 -0400 9/30/03, Mauricio wrote:
Ok, I am trying to put linux in my SS1+. So, I downloaded
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4cdm/tftpboot.img
to my netbsd box, which I am using as rarpd/tftpd server. I
configured the SS1+ to boot from le
At 16:49 +0200 6/9/03, Wojciech Moczulski wrote:
Hello there,
Few days ago a friend of mine brought me Sparcstation-1. But eprom on this
machine has been erased throgh battery discharge. I've heard that there's
possibility to install a kind of typical eprom chip with uploaded
suitable code
At 18:54 +0200 10/1/03, Antonello wrote:
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:22:04 +0100
Emmanuel Kasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um, with my SS10, ROM 2.25, this doesn't happen. I have to explicitely
set serial I/O if I want that. Simply unplugging keyboard (which works
nicely on another SS10 with an
Ok, I am trying to put linux in my SS1+. So, I downloaded
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4cdm/tftpboot.img
to my netbsd box, which I am using as rarpd/tftpd server. I
configured the SS1+ to boot from le(). This is what happens:
Testing
Testing audio
At 21:12 -0500 8/5/03, Steven Wilcoxon wrote:
Since the IP address I gave to the SS1+ is 10.0.0.17, I guess
the filename then becomes A011.SUN4M. So, I symbolically linked
the file:
A0 is 160, 0A is 10.
Sorry for that; I am typing challenged. Also, Derek Payne
[EMAIL
At 14:11 -0400 8/4/03, josh wrote:
Mauricio wrote...
modified the tftp entry in /etc/inetd.conf to reflect that
tftp dgram udp6 wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s
/export/netboot
try using just udp not udp6
Done and I kill'ed -HUP inetd so to make that change
Another easy question: I want to set my ss20 (solaris9) box
so I can use it to netinstall debian linux in my SS1+. So, I
o created a /etc/ethers file
# cat /etc/ethers
8:0:20:c0:ff:ee katrina
#
o added an entry to my /etc/hosts file
10.0.0.17 katrina.kushana.com katrina #
At 15:30 -0400 7/9/03, Ben Collins wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:28:09PM +, openssh wrote:
They are raw ISO images. It should just burn them that way. If you burn
it, you should then be able to open the CD under winxp and see the
files.
ok. thanks 1k for the answer!
but this
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