Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Finally got a chance to test this more thoroughly. It turns out that > the install is failing because of my odd install method (dump the > install image on the disk, boot on it, overwrite the install media > with the install). > That is the only method I have seen work with older sparc netra

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-28 Thread Gregor Riepl
> An update on this. > For interest sake I tried an install of Ubuntu 8.04 Sparc. > That gets far further than either of the Debian installs. This would be comparable to Debian etch or lenny. I remember having had a very stable experience with etch on my Ultra 10 back in the day, although this

Re: Re: Debian Installation on Ultra 30 (was Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23)

2021-09-27 Thread Hermann . Lauer
Hello Stan, On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 08:33:54AM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > Having the above partitioning scheme seems to work ok with GRUB; the > reason I asked about the "Whole disk" partition is that some > partitioning tools (specifically fdisk, as I recall), refuse to create > additional

Re: Debian Installation on Ultra 30 (was Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23)

2021-09-27 Thread Stan Johnson
Hi Adrian, On 9/27/21 2:42 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/26/21 07:34, Stan Johnson wrote: >> Not knowing what the preferred size should be for a GRUB /boot >> partition, I decided to let Guided Partioning use its defaults for >> /dev/sda. As I recall, the partitioner

Re: Debian Installation on Ultra 30 (was Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23)

2021-09-27 Thread Stan Johnson
Hi Hermann, On 9/27/21 1:56 AM, hermann.la...@uni-heidelberg.de wrote: > Hi Stan, > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:34:59PM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: >> Not knowing what the preferred size should be for a GRUB /boot >> partition, I decided to let Guided Partioning use its defaults for >> /dev/sda.

Re: Debian Installation on Ultra 30 (was Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23)

2021-09-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 9/27/21 03:56, hermann.la...@uni-heidelberg.de wrote: > Hi Stan, > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:34:59PM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: >> Not knowing what the preferred size should be for a GRUB /boot >> partition, I decided to let Guided Partioning use its defaults for >> /dev/sda. As I recall,

Re: Debian Installation on Ultra 30 (was Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23)

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 9/26/21 07:34, Stan Johnson wrote: > Not knowing what the preferred size should be for a GRUB /boot > partition, I decided to let Guided Partioning use its defaults for > /dev/sda. As I recall, the partitioner warned that the number of > cylinders on the disk exceeded the maximum of

Re: Debian Installation on Ultra 30 (was Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23)

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Hermann! On 9/27/21 09:56, hermann.la...@uni-heidelberg.de wrote: >> The layout for /dev/sda is as follows: >> >> # fdisk -l /dev/sda >> Disk /dev/sda: 136.73 GiB, 146815737856 bytes, 286749488 sectors >> Disk model: ST3146807LC >> Geometry: 255 heads, 2 sectors/track, 37965 cylinders >>

Re: Debian Installation on Ultra 30 (was Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23)

2021-09-27 Thread Hermann . Lauer
Hi Stan, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:34:59PM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > Not knowing what the preferred size should be for a GRUB /boot > partition, I decided to let Guided Partioning use its defaults for > /dev/sda. As I recall, the partitioner warned that the number of > cylinders on the disk

RE: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-25 Thread Brian Noonan
: Friday, 24 September 2021 10:12 PM To: Brian Noonan Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23 Hello Brian! On 9/24/21 13:24, Brian Noonan wrote: > However, I get an error. > watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! >

RE: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-24 Thread Brian Noonan
, 24 September 2021 10:12 PM To: Brian Noonan Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23 Hello Brian! On 9/24/21 13:24, Brian Noonan wrote: > However, I get an error. > watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! > The erro

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Brian! On 9/24/21 13:24, Brian Noonan wrote: > However, I get an error. > watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! > The error happens at different points in the install. First time was > when it tried to configure the NIC's by DHCP and the second was when > it tried to

RE: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-24 Thread Brian Noonan
Hi Adrian, I booted the latest iso on a Sun V120 with 2.5GB RAM. However, I get an error. watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! The error happens at different points in the install. First time was when it tried to configure the NIC's by DHCP and the second was when it tried to

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 9/23/21 22:48, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > as for ia64 the news tell there is no kernel maintainer anymore and the > architecture is marked as orphaned, so removal might be coming soon. Architectures have been in the kernel without a maintainer before, so it's not really news. arch/sh was

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hi Adrian, as for ia64 the news tell there is no kernel maintainer anymore and the architecture is marked as orphaned, so removal might be coming soon. But you would know first of course, as your name is mentioned in the same news about it :)

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Connor! On 9/23/21 22:16, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > Unfortunately not all software in the repos and on snapshot are available > or give a bus errors and won't work. > For example all kde related stuff is not installable due to conflicts and > missing packages. It is possible to fix these

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread Connor McLaughlan
@Iggi: You have several options which all require a lot of work. Do as Adrian tells and manually collect needed packages from snapshot.debian.org This way you can get for example an old firefox (50) and an old version of Libreoffice installed and working. Unfortunately not all software in the

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Iggi! On 9/23/21 15:46, James Bond wrote: > ok, works till you select a "non default" option in "Select and Install > software". I selected "Debian desktop environment" it fails. Well after > finishing the installation manually I also tried mplayer etc and it looks > like the binary files

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, ok, works till you select a "non default" option in "Select and Install software". I selected "Debian desktop environment" it fails. Well after finishing the installation manually I also tried mplayer etc and it looks like the binary files are not available to apt-get. Debian could

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, thanks a lot will instantly give it a try on the Ultra 10. Cheers Iggi Am 23.09.21, 11:25 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : Hi! I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images. These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes