On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 04:40, Ben Collins wrote:
Bottom line: no floppy on ultralinux, no conversion :(
For god sakes, man. Force these people into the 21st century. We have
LAN's and email for file swapping. I can't think of one good reason to
have floppies. Use CDR's instead if you need
that second.b of silo/tilo uncompresses/loads
into. If it hits the end of it before it's done, it fails.
This isn't the problem I'm having though. I'm getting
scheduling while atomic early in the boot process (right
after the POSIX message) and dump_stack() isn't implemented
on sparc64.
--
Steve Dunham
Steve Dunham wrote:
Jeff Pickell wrote:
Sorry if I'm way off base on this one, but I've been paying around with
different kernels (mostly the 2.4.18 stuff) on an Ultra I. When I've
finished compiling the source, the resulting vmlinux file isn't
compressed, just like you've stated. Just
part'll be working on sparc64 as some of it have been
written by David Miller.
I decided to take a look at it today. I pulled down 2.5.59, but I'm
still trying to get it to compile. Anyone know which 2.5 kernels compile
on sparc64?
--
Steve Dunham
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham
, the kernel didn't run .. I'd be interested to know if anyone
has gotten 2.5.x to run on a Blade100. I'd like to debug/use the IPSec
stuff.)
Steve
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--
Steve Dunham
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham
Ben Collins wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:35:03PM +0100, Daniel van Eeden wrote:
Is it an sparc64 only problem or is ipsec also unusable on sparc32?
The problem is specific to any arch where the userspace and kernel run
different bitness. Like sparc64, where userland is 32bit (same for
Dan Koch wrote:
Hi folks,
I installed the most current setiathome package via apt-get also making
sure I had all the upgrades for woody installed. I'm running it on a Sun
UltraSparc2. Setiathome starts out ok and downloads the data files but
as soon as it begins processing, the machine freezes
I managed to narrow down the exact cause of the postgresql configure
script failing to detect that long long is 64 bits on the Sparc.
It seems that libcrypto.so is dynamically exporting __muldi3 and other
symbols that it pulls in from libgcc.a, but v[89]/libcrypto.so do not
contain these
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:28:21PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
Weird. I compiled and ran the below program on my machine, and it worked
just fine. I'd call it a configure problems.
Ok, the problem is libcrypto.so, if you include that when you link and
run the program, you'll get:
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Branden, Mike Renfro, and I worked on the Xsun problem (Branden and Mike
mostly) and resolved the issue. Somehow an access() call crept in that
incorrectly told the server that it did not have access to /dev/fb (man 2
access for why this is not good in
Jim Westveer wrote:
Hurmph,
In my zeal to update the debian-cd scripts for sparc, I first
made changes to the debian-cd script tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc,
so that it would write an El Torito bootable CD .
Well duhh, that was stupid on my part!
After recovering a bit (and taking a
Weon-sun Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root] cat /proc/fb
0 CGsix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root] dmesg
- skip
here is fb0 infomation
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x54
fb0: cgsix at 2. TEC Rev 4 CPU sparc Rev b
Michael Jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ok, heres two discrepencies i noted; i've never used X with an ultra, but..
Operating System: Linux 2.2.9 sparc64 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel
0)
(using VT number 7)
Linux
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Artur Zaworski) writes:
Sorry, I forgot something... last sec. of my Xsun ;
+ strace Xsun
access(/dev/fb0, R_OK|W_OK) = 0
open(/dev/fb0, O_RDWR)= 6
ioctl(6, FBIOGATTR, 0x2cf4f0) = 0
Carlos Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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I need some help as I dont know much about sun
In my jobs there's a sun sparcstation 4 running redhat 4.*
That sun only has 1 hard disk (scsi and not much space ~2GB)
It has no CDrom, no floppy, but has
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karan Bhatia) writes:
hi, i have debian slink running on a sparcstation 2 (sun4m i think) and
all is as it should be, except i can't find netscape 4.5 native for it.
I have:
1. searched ftp.netscape.com extensively, it seems that last year they
had a sparc-linux
Andreas Jaehnigen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi everybody...
How do I setup X correctly? :-O
System is a Sun Sparcstation SLC with bwtwo graphics card. X
definitely runs on it, because I managed to start X from a normal
Debian installation. Now, I've to configure X by hand, and it
Troy Tuttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am having some trouble compiling a kernel (2.2.1)it gets to the point
of compiling the actual kernel itself and then it dies with about 50
dereferenced pointer to an imcomplete type errorsI have tried using
egcs and gcc with the same error both
Troy Tuttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am using that src pkg...but still no luck...
I'm not sure what's going wrong here. (Sounds like some include files
are mixed up). You can try:
make clean
rm include/linux/modules/*
make dep
make
Or, you could try the kernel-source-2.2.9
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:31:53PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
With the latest update to my Ultra Sparc 5 system (binary-sparc)
my graphics within X seemed to go astray. For the most part
everything looks fine, except it seems that graphics
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I said earlier in the week:
I've just started doing a new set of official sparc images on
cdimage.debian.org and things are failing all over the place. I've checked
up and the binary-sparc directories are full of sym-links to sid. Can
somebody
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A couple of questions appeared in my mind while upgrading to 2.2.10:
(1) This business of having to install /etc/init.d/devpts.sh from
potato's libc6 to make a recent 2.2.x kernel work if
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS is selected. It's not too hard to do by hand, but
it
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've managed to get setserial 2.15-4 to compile (see the important bug
I filed with a patch), however, I get the following errors when
running it...
# setserial /dev/ttyS0
sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(541e) arg(ec20)
Cannot get serial
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just started doing a new set of official sparc images on
cdimage.debian.org and things are failing all over the place. I've checked
up and the binary-sparc directories are full of sym-links to sid. Can
somebody please explain this? At the moment
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The egcs64 in potato is flakey, the one is slink might be flakey, and
the one in Red Hat works (it's the one in slink with some additional
patches, the one in potato is based on a much newer egcs
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 04:28:42PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
Try:
rm /dev/fb0
mv /dev/fb1 /dev/fb0
*blink*
why is that? we are going to be installing at least three sparcs in a couple
of weeks (one Ultra 10, one Ultra 5, one
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anders Hammarquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Neither one is answering my question! :)
Oh, come now, it's only been 4 hours since your last mail...
I installed Debian in a Ultra 5 and xserver-mach64 and the following
error occurs
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
thanks for all the help yesterday, but I cant compile kernel yet.
I tried with 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 from debian source package and it stops in
the same point.
And X still have error starting. I'm using 2.2.1 from
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Steve,
I installed Debian in a new Ultra 5 at school friday, but I'm a bit
unhappy.
I cant get X to work. I installed Debian in 2 Sparc 4, 1 Sparc 5 and
1 Sparc 20 before. All other machines I got X working.
Try:
rm /dev/fb0
mv /dev/fb1 /dev/fb0
Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
client irc server on a 1+. Linux is faster than Solaris on these systems,
but they are still only good for single service type applications, which
sounds like what you want to do. They are very solid though (36 days
uptime on the sparc 1 so far, the
Ivan E. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 04:57:25AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
Hi all,
6 months ago or so, I pretend to install Debian in a Ultra 5 in my
school, but I cant. No I can, but I think that slink was released and
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So,
how to install Debian in a Ultra5?
Boot from the network or boot from CDROM.
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a) I have removed kernel-source-sparc-2.2.1 and the 2.0.35 and 2.2.0
patches on the basis that they're probably obsolete. If I'm wrong,
now would be a good time to say so.
I take that back, I see the
Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 11:15:25AM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
The only UltraSparc kernel image in Debian is compiled from
kernel-source-sparc-2.2.1 (a CVS kernel with some additional patches
added). As soon as the i386 guys get around
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The only UltraSparc kernel image in Debian is compiled from
kernel-source-sparc-2.2.1 (a CVS kernel with some additional patches
added).
This is serverly wrong. The kernel-patch mechanism works and exists
Kumsup Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, I had same problem. I disable the UNIX98 ptys support in the
2.2.9 kernel. Now, it is working as it should be. Is there any
better way to fix this problem ?
If you have UNIX98 pty support in the kernel and /dev/ptmx exists,
then you must mount the
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Dunham wrote:
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello Steve,
I got your 2.2.8 kernel images. I will try to package another bootdisks set
next week based on them.
I already downloaded kernel-image-2.2.7*_cvs.19990507_sparc.deb last
Anton Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I suspect that there are serious problems with the 2.2.8 kernel, so
you might want to go with the 2.2.7 ones. (I will try 2.2.9 RSN -
Herbert Xu promised to upload an x86 package last sunday, but hasn't
done so.)
2.2.7 hangs during booting
maxime baudin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 05:40:18PM -0500, Chuque Berry wrote:
I just D/L the iso image for one of the mirrors and then burnt that to cd
.. worked like a charm.
I did, but I like to make an special ISO CD image...
Ok, let's ask in another way:
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Currently I have an opinion on libc5 in sparc. 1) our current libc5 is
pretty broken (I can't seem to get too many libc5 binaries to work with
it), it makes xfree86-1 build fail when doing the libc5 compat xlib, 2)
the latest libc5 wont compile for sparc
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:07:20PM +0530, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
On 13 May 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
Yeah, glibc should work fine on sparc32 machines with a recent kernel,
there is a patched 2.2.7 kernel and a 2.2.8 kernel at:
http
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've updated URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/. My changes
(WML) might take a few days to push out into the web mirrors.
Could we put a link on the :http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc64/ page
that points to the ports/sparc page? This is what the
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is because pci support is compiled into the kernel. I had some crash
problems on my sc2000 involving loadkeys with a kernel like this, so I
guess it isn't the best idea for the default kernel to contain pci.
Anyway, what sparcs have pci buses
Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 12/05, Ben Collins wrote:
| All the new packages will run with slink's glibc, they are perfectly
| compatible. Please report any problems to the contrary as we are set on
| having this compatability.
Btw, I am running glibc2.1.1-2 on my Sparc10
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 01:19:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah... it seems as though the LX is the un-4m... :)
I've heard of people having audio working on the LX (with DBRI,
same as the 10 and 20, but I don't hear a peep outa my SS10).
Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone been able to find a fix for the dreaded ypbind hang? From
the mailing list archives, I understand that using either ypbind-3.3
or ypbind-mt-1.4 will solve the problem, but neither one is available
in a Debian package. So, would the maintainer be
Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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* Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05/04/99 11:30] wrote:
Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone been able to find a fix for the dreaded ypbind hang? From
the mailing list archives, I understand that using
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[repost: original sent on 27th.April, but had problems getting through]
It got through, I just didn't reply, we've had enough KDE flamewars.
In a message dated 23/04/99 19:09:17, Steve Dunham wrote:
Rick Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is KDE 1.1 available
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just now need new 2.2 kernel images for sparc.
Which one are available now ? 2.2.6 ? 2.2.7 ?
Slink proposed-updates already has 2.2.5. Let's stick with that, it's
known to be good. Do you need me to make
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
finally I caught up with normal life again; maybe slightly more noisy
than before ;-)
Ben is putting a lot of work in the glibc update and I'm glad that he
took over the package compilation. Thanks.
I read the glibc thread with interest and
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:22:02AM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:
Hi,
finally I caught up with normal life again; maybe slightly more noisy
than before ;-)
Good to hear from you again :)
It's ok that the old sparc patches were dropped because
It's your favorite debian developer again. :)
Your glibc chown hack has one minor problem: Old libraries which
reference chown@@GLIBC_2.1 won't link (compile time) with the new
libc. (The load-time linking works fine.)
This probably isn't too give us _too_ much trouble, but the following
will
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 07:12:29PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
It's your favorite debian developer again. :)
Your glibc chown hack has one minor problem: Old libraries which
reference chown@@GLIBC_2.1 won't link (compile time) with the new
libc
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well I now have a recompile of the glibc 2.1.1 libs using the egcs
1.1.2 where I modified 2 lines to remove the WEAK symbol of
__register_frame_info. The symbol is still defined, but now I can
compile apps on the new lib and they still run on a glibc
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In case you haven't noticed, I've setup an autobuilder for sparc and
have compiled some 500+ packages over the past few days. We were
initially at onl 53% sync with potato, we are not slightly over 89%.
There are a few more gnome packages I need to get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry to be slightly off-topic, but does anyone have any recent
experience of how much second-hand Sun computers are worth? If so I'd
be grateful for any data points (model and price) as there's a whole
lot coming up for auction here soon and I might try to get one.
Alexander G. Carver \[Data\] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been trying to install the 8bit xserver on my IPX for over a week now
but it doesn't work. I'm trying to use version 3.3.2.3a-11. I've already
tried to install it with dselect and with dpkg but both times it has a
problem locating
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 02:02:04PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
XFree86_3.3.3.1-0pre1v3 with accelerated LEO support and accelerated
FFB (Creator) support added. It needs a kernel with LEO support compiled
in, and it was compiled against your libc-2.1.1
Christopher Reid Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Dunham wrote:
[snip death on loading the initrd from CD)
Should be fine if it loaded the kernel without problem. (It hasn't
actually started the kernel, has it?)
This is what I get:
1. Welcome message and boot prompt
2
Man H. Tam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am new to the Linux community and I am trying to find a stable
Linux distribution to install on my Sparc5 station.
I read your web site. You mentioned that Debian - Sparc is almost
stable state. How stable comparing with the RedHat distribution?
It
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:42:30PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
I'll try the libc packages too. You were also working on an a sparc64
compiler, right? What's the status on that. If egcs 1.1.2 can
correctly compile the sparc64 kernel I'd rather use
Rick Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is KDE 1.1 available for debian/sparc? If so, where can one get the
packages?
I don't even think it's available for i386 at the moment. Aside from
not being free, it's not entirely clear whether it is legal to
distribute or not.
Even if there were i386
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 11:02:40PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
Steve == Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Also - I've never had the init locking syndrome on my SS20
Steve - I've had lock ups during the boot sequence, but never
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:51:28PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben Ok, I've recompiled glibc 2.1.1 with a cvs checkout from
Ben today. Seems to work pretty well on my ultra. The problems
Ben
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Orion == Orion the Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Orion First, thanks a lot for all the replies. Yes, I had read
Orion somewhere that Ultra's cannot be booted from floppy, I just
Orion can't remember exactly where.
Probably the Install Manual?
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another point about X:
I'm using a french keyboard (latin1 layout) and I cannot switch back to
virtual
consoles. CTRL-ALT + Fn are inoperant. Any advice ?
Odd. How can one configure XKB at all on
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
About wrong /dev/fb0 permissions, could someone investigate why X
does not find the device if not world writable ? I was not able to
track it down to the point (strace is segfaulting early on X, Xsun,
startx, ...). Even with Xsun running suid I get
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Did all that, but now I get:
rm -f kernel.o
ld -m elf64_sparc -r -o kernel.o signal.o ksyms.o sched.o dma.o fork.o
exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o sys.o module.o exit.o itimer.o info.o time.o
softirq.o
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Argh. Forgot about that. Bug in egcs64 package that I fixed locally
with a symlink. I'll add this to the egcs64 package if I can't find a
better solution.
install -d /usr/sparc-linux
ln -s ../lib
Joshua Uziel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well... then.. does it make sense to unsintall Xsun24 and set up Xsun8
instead? I've got only 32MB and it would be worth it if I save some memory
with it.
I've never tried it, but I'm surprised Xsun24 works at all for
you. :) I doubt you'd save
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:36:58PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
I've installed this on an Ultra5. Seems to work fine. Survived a
reboot. Some minor problems that need to be fixed in other apps
(xterms end up using ttyp? instead of pts/?). BTW
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:21:05AM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
I know, I've been telling people this. But there are a few apps that
manually acquire pty's instead of using the libc functions, so they
end up with oldstyle one - it works, but isn't
Chris Trainor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I always wanted 24bit color for my sparc, till I found out the cheapest I
could get a ZX framebuffer (or the one of the SS-5) was going to cost as
much as my Sparc5 did... so, needles to say, I live with the ekky colors
in X. :)
The ZX is very slow in
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
subject says all; I see that sparc uses glib-2.1 and kernel-2.2.1, so
this should not be a problem. Is there some other reason not make egcs
the primary compiler for sparc?
Thanks, the Debian EGCS maintainers.
None that I know of.
Ok, here is a simple patch to the kernel-package rules file to add
UltraSparc support:
--- /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules.bak Tue Mar 30 12:50:20 1999
+++ /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules Tue Mar 30 12:55:24 1999
@@ -194,6 +194,9 @@
kimagesrc = vmlinux
kimagedest =
Ward Deng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have spent some time this weekend to update our xia01, an UltraSPARC
system, to Debian 2.1 (slink). It went very smoothly. Thumbs up to all
who contributed. The TFTP image is identical to the one used to install
32-bit Debian 2.1 on xia02, a SPARCstation
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can anyone brief my on how we're coordinating the sparc porting effort?
What do people think of putting up a wanna-build buildd for Debian/sparc?
Is there any other pointers I should know for porting pkgs to Sparc?
Guidelines? Is it ok to compile
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok, I've gotten glibc 2.1.1-0.1 compiled. No real problems (atleast no
C++ libs problems like i386 is having).
Only thing I see wrong is tar broke:
tar: error in loading shared libraries: tar: symbol chown, version
GLIBC_2.1 not defined in file
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This should explain the error that you are seeing, but it doesn't
explain why I don't see the problem on my test machine.
I'm using tar 1.12-7, btw.
Wait - I am seeing the problem with other programs.
Sorry, typed C-c C-c in the wrong window.
I
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(The big problems are at the end.)
Well, after finding out that this new glibc 2.1 without the chown patch
will also break X, I've changed my opinion slightly.
Does it break X if you recompile X? (I would doubt it, since X works
with 2.1.1 on Red Hat.)
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
If you want, I can take care of compiling this. (I did it once about
a month ago, but that was with an older, broken version of egcc, so
crypt didn't work and, hence, I didn't upload
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 05:45:07PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
If you want, I can take care of compiling this. (I did it once about
a month
rmathis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have sucessfully installed debian sparc base from floppies and now
need to get dhcpcd working in order to finish the install. I have
installed the dhcpcd package recommended on the package list but it
fails to run even though there were no errors
Daniel Brosemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, thanks to people on this group, I have almost all my questions sorted
out re: debian-sparc, however, I still have one question.
I read somewhere that S/Linux could run solaris binaries, is this true?
If it is, how do I do it? On my sparcstation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes:
So, I went through the install, and an old problem reappeared...
When booting off of this disk (sd(0,2,0)), I get
Bad magic number in disk label!
S
Bad magic number in disk label!
IProgram terminated.
ok
I assume this is because (1) the disk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes:
The sparc images are now on cdimage.debian.org.
yay. Will sunsite.org.uk just pick them up? and if so, what path?
(rsync -v sunsite.org.uk:: just says pub which isn't
helpful... using rsync -n to browse is really painful...)
They should pick
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just tried a newly-written 2.1 sparc boot CD on our twin-CPU
Enterprise 450 at work, mainly as a test of the intelsilo stuff Steve
Dunham gave me. It seemed to work quite well, then failed. Some of the
boot messages below, ask if you need to see
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Running thru a tftp installation on my new sparc, I realized that
either I'm confused (and the documentation too), or you can't install
floppyless/cd-less.
For instance, sure, you can boot from tftp, but when you try to install
the operating system
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
You can't put a swap partition there. ext2 and ufs have a couple of
unused blocks at the beginning, so they coexist with the disk label.
I've always used an ext2 partition at the beginning of the disk
without
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Dunham writes:
So, when do you want a CD image. Assuming the other archs have
stopped uploading new stuff, the last thing we _need_ for sparc is for
console-tools to be installed from incoming into the distribution.
Ick...
It made
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The slink release has been a mess, culminating in a last-minute sorry, we
missed it again announcement. If we're going to release properly next
Tuesday at 00:00 GMT, then we need a schedule like the following:
1. Fixes needed for each set allowed in
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve == Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Eric, I've come up with the rules file magic to generate both
Steve sparc32 and sparc64 kernels from the same source package. (It
Steve generates kernel-image-2.2.x-sparc64_*, then generates
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, where are we up to for sparc/alpha. The m68k stuff is sorted now, as
is the i386. Where have we got to on fixing the last few dependencies?
I've added exclude support to slink_cd as a last-miute hack to allow us
to simply lose any final problem
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, where are we up to for sparc/alpha. The m68k stuff is sorted now, as
is the i386. Where have we got to on fixing the last few dependencies?
I've added exclude
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, where are we up to for sparc/alpha. The m68k stuff is sorted now, as
is the i386. Where have we got to on fixing the last few dependencies?
I've added exclude support to slink_cd as a last-miute hack to allow us
to simply lose any final problem
document issues that were discovered after these CD images
were created.
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
March 6, 1999
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, where are we up to for sparc/alpha. The m68k stuff is sorted now, as
is the i386. Where have we got to on fixing the last few dependencies?
I've added exclude support to slink_cd as a last-miute hack
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Steve Dunham wrote:
I also can't get anything to boot on an Ultra1 (neither floppies that
I make nor the UltraPenguin floppies). I've heard reports to the
contrary on this list, but I don't think they were
Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Still looking for a response anyone? please?
One addition, can anyone let me know the ftp full path to the
version of Debian linux for SPARC that I should be attempting to use
here? I don't mind trouble shooting and/or debugging on behalf of
the group.
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