[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I decided to test your boot floppies on my SPARCstation 2 again. > > From > ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp/disks-sparc/990301 > I acquired: > > base14-[1-8].bin.2.1.8.1-sparc > drv1440-2.2.1.bin.2.1.8.1-sparc > drv1440.bin.2.1.8.1-sparc > resc1440-2.2.1.bin.2.1.8.1-sparc > resc1440.bin.2.1.8.1-sparc > root1440.bin.malnova > > First I did a pure floppy install using the 2.0.x kernel. Everything > worked perfectly. I missed out the dselect bit, though. I could boot > from the hard disk and from the boot floppy I made. > > I grabbed a copy of base2_1.tgz while the installer was unpacking it. > The network, including DNS, must have been set up correctly because I > had no problems putting a copy of base2_1.tgz onto another machine ... > once I discovered that the network connector had fallen out of the > back! (Those AUI/10BaseT converters are a bit heavy for their > sockets.) > > Then I tried reinstalling using the 2.2.1 kernel floppies, fetching > base2_1.tgz by NFS, this time. This worked perfectly too, apart from > annoying error messages that messed up the screen from time to time. > > Those error messages included: > > /dev/fd0: Device not configured > modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3 > SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument > can't locate module nfs
Those messages are normally redirected to tty3 by the installer but I have had to disable this feature for 2.2 kernels because it hung the keyboard on tty1. I will investigate a bit further later to find a way to fix it... hopefully before the next freeze of potato ;) > Random comment: I got a different kind of cursor with 2.2.1, and a > penguin with a sun on its tummy. > > Interestingly, 2.2.1 leaves the display in a funny state when you > shutdown. The PROM write black on black for a while afterwards. > > Anyway, it all worked, basically, so I hope everything else is ready > for a successful release this time ... I hope too :-)) Thanks for your report. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
