tribblix dies a few seconds after starting to boot with Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/boot_archive Loading: /platform/sun4u/boot_archive
Can't open boot_archive Fast Data Access MMU Miss Bummer. Thanks very much, nonetheless, for keeping SPARC in mind, Peter! On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.rito...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm, yeah, Tribblix sounds like a great option for my purposes. Is there > X support? That'd be nice so I can free up the other serial port. (Trying > to simultaneously run a serial console to the pdp11 as well as an emulated > tu58 drive via the other serial port.) I think I'll give it a whirl. > OpenBSD can boot from floppy and install via Internet, so that's great, but > I can't seem to find any floppies that'll still format. This is heck-of > retro :) > > thx > jake > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > Is it feasible to install Hipster or OI on such a meagerly appointed >> > machine? I don't even have a dvd player; just cd. >> > >> > SunOS beep 5.11 snv_65 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 >> > Memory size: 256 Megabytes >> > >> >> That's a sparc box. You aren't going to be able to run OI >> (any version, including hipster) or most of the illumos distros. >> >> You've really got 2 options. OpenSXCE or Tribblix. >> >> http://www.opensxce.org/ >> http://www.tribblix.org/download.html >> >> Now, the Tribblix iso should fit on a CD. (Although to be >> honest that's largely accidental as I haven't built most >> of the packages for sparc yet.) As should the OpenSXCE >> text iso. >> >> The really hard part is going to be booting the CD in that >> small amount of memory. The root archive on the Tribblix >> iso is currently 200M, and that gets loaded into memory - >> you really don't have any space left to breathe. (I don't >> know offhand how big the OpenSXCE boot archive is, >> but it's likely to be pretty similar.) >> >> This isn't a truly fundamental problem - the root archive >> ends up being pretty large because it has support for >> everything in it by default, and it should be possible to >> produce a custom iso with a much smaller root archive. >> One of the things I'm interested in is minimal-footprint >> configurations, so doing that (and any other work to >> improve efficiency and reduce the footprint) is on my >> agenda, but it's going to take time. (And it's difficult >> for me to test, as I don't personally have any sparc >> hardware left that's that old or small. On x86 I think >> I managed to boot a custom iso in 400M and run in 256M, >> but there I can fiddle the settings in a VirtualBox VM.) >> >> Another way would be to use the existing OS to install >> a newer distro in an alternate boot environment. >> >> In any event, you're likely to be in for a modest amount >> of work and you're off into the weeds; the population of >> illumos users working on sparc is pretty small. >> >> -- >> -Peter Tribble >> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> openindiana-discuss mailing list >> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss