HP Vectra VL install problems

Hi folks I'm trying to install 4.8 on a HP Vectra machine. I don't know the precise model number, it's a PII-400 with both PCI and ISA slots. I think it's a 5xxx series. I've tried both boot floppies and CDrom, with the same results: The system boots off the selected media, presents me with the ke

Promise ATA Raid controller

Hi folks In the 4.8-i386 hardware notes, mention is made of: Promise Fasttrak TX2000 IDE cards Promise SuperTrak ATA RAID controllers Can I imply from this that: Promise FastTrak TX2000 ATA RAID Card will work? Has anyone any experience (good or bad) with these? I am considering buying one as my

Threads problem on 5.1-Release sparc64

Hi folks I'm still having pthreads problems on Sparc64 (5.1 Release): The program concerned is: # cat conftest.c #include void* routine(void* p){return NULL;} int main(){ pthread_t p; if(pthread_create(&p,NULL,routine,NULL)!=0) return 1; (void)pthread_detach(p); return 0; } Compil

Problem with threads in 5.1Release, sparc64

Hiya Pthread support seems to be a bit broken... When I try to compile mod_php4 or python from ports, the configure stage hangs at checking for pthreads_cflags... or similar Truss of conftest shows it's hanging on a poll (full truss below) I was able to install python by building without threads

Panic on 5.1-RELEASE sparc64 - Quotas

Hi folks I just upgraded my ultra 5 to 5.1-RELEASE from 5.0-RELEASE-p6 When I rebooted it, the box got into a panic-reboot loop. There's nothing about the panic in the message log (because it seems to have been something IO related. I've pasted the messages from the first boot at the bottom of the