Installing Squeeze on an Ultra 5

2011-12-09 Thread Jack Hill
Hi all, I'm trying to install squeeze on my Ultra 5. The install failed with I/O errors. I was fairly sure that the disk was fine because I had no problems install/running Gentoo. After talking with some people on #gentoo-sparc on freenode I learned that the IDE controller on the Ultra 5

Re: Installing Squeeze on an Ultra 5

2011-12-09 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:55:15AM -0500, Jack Hill wrote: I'm trying to install squeeze on my Ultra 5. The install failed with I/O errors. I was fairly sure that the disk was fine because I had no problems install/running Gentoo. After talking with some people on #gentoo-sparc on freenode I

Re: Installing Squeeze on an Ultra 5

2011-12-09 Thread Jack Hill
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:55:15AM -0500, Jack Hill wrote: I'm trying to install squeeze on my Ultra 5. The install failed with I/O errors. I was fairly sure that the disk was fine because I had no problems install/running Gentoo. After talking

Re: Installing Squeeze on an Ultra 5

2011-12-09 Thread Patrick Baggett
I installed squeeze on an Ultra 10. My disks run on a SCSI controller PCI card, but the CD-ROM was still IDE. I didn't have any I/O errors with that...but then again, the amount of I/O might have been insignificant compared to a full IDE disk-based system (did a net install after booting from the

Re: Installing Squeeze on an Ultra 5

2011-12-09 Thread Jack Hill
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Patrick Baggett wrote: I installed squeeze on an Ultra 10. My disks run on a SCSI controller PCI card, but the CD-ROM was still IDE. I didn't have any I/O errors with that...but then again, the amount of I/O might have been insignificant compared to a full IDE disk-based