Hi, I've just installed woody on my Ultra1 - it is a headless machine and thus I did the install over serial; here are a few comments that I hope are useful (I considered submitting these to boot-floppies bugs - but the list of unresolved bugs is several times the size of the resolved list, with most years old).
sparc issues ------------ 1) The system reboot checklist is very x86 - I mean most sparcs don't care if they have other media sitting in removable slots. 2) I hit 'the file just loaded does not appear to be executable'; when I rebooted. The problem here is that I'd put the first partition to start at cylinder 1; booting as disk0:c to use the whole disk partition solved that. 3) I saw some 'cannot create /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe: directory nonexistent' messages during the install - but fortunatly I didn't need any modules. serial issues ------------- When installing off network the paths in the progress boxes are too large for the box. On a serial terminal (minicom in konsole) I couldn't see any progress bar. I couldn't see a cursor or similar when selecting the locales I wanted to keep. Thanks, Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM, SPARC and HP-PA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/