potato success on various SPARCstations and two questions.

2000-01-09 Thread andrea . martano
Hi all, I just installed the new disks on 4 SS and everything looks good. I installed on SS2, SS5/110 SS10/40 single CPU and SS20/50 single CPU. After installation I started installing single pkgs using dpkg to buil a customized system. I just have two questions: 1) After installing the disks

Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing

2000-01-09 Thread J. S. Connell
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Eric Delaunay wrote: > On this topic, do you know about a way of identifying the type of console > connected to the serial line ? Is there an escape sequence that returns vt100 > or the like ? Unfortunately, there is no universal mechanism for detecting what kind of terminal

Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing

2000-01-09 Thread ferret
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 04:29:40PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > Pass TERM=vt100 or TERM=vt102 at boot time. Current init process does not > > enforce TERM settings anymore ;(( I don't know wether I will enable it > > again > > or just let the user

Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing

2000-01-09 Thread ferret
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Eric Delaunay wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Machine is a Sparc IPX with generic 4x16MB 36-bit SIMMS and OEM hard > > drive on serial console. > > > > > > Booted by TFTP > > > > Console is `minicom' running on Slink i386. Noticed that dbootstrap is > > not drawing w

Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing

2000-01-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 04:29:40PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: > Pass TERM=vt100 or TERM=vt102 at boot time. Current init process does not > enforce TERM settings anymore ;(( I don't know wether I will enable it again > or just let the user pass TERM=xxx at boot time. Maybe a serial target for >

Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing

2000-01-09 Thread Eric Delaunay
Eric Delaunay wrote: > > Well, my first try is not successful at all :(( > > Hardware: SparcClassic (sun4m), 24MB RAM, 207MB harddisk. > > 1. booting from network (tftpboot.img) > -- > Report: image downloaded, then messages are displayed very slowly (could be

Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing

2000-01-09 Thread Eric Delaunay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Machine is a Sparc IPX with generic 4x16MB 36-bit SIMMS and OEM hard > drive on serial console. > > > Booted by TFTP > > Console is `minicom' running on Slink i386. Noticed that dbootstrap is > not drawing with the IBM `box' characters like 2.1 dbootstrap did. Pass TE

SPARC 1+ installation report (potato)

2000-01-09 Thread Sven Hartrumpf
Hi. I tried the disks from http://xia01.kachinatech.com/~buildd/sparc-2.2.14-potato-boot/ on my SPARC 1+ (SUN 4c and SUN 4cdm rescue disks seem to produce identical results.) First, a warning is displayed when the rescue disk is automatically ejected: "WARNING floppy change called early" Second,

Re: Troubles booting sparcstation over a network

2000-01-09 Thread Maarten Vink
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Maarten Vink wrote: > > > After successfully installing debian on my PC, I thought I'd give my old > > Sparcstation a try. Since I don't have a monitor or floppy drive for it, I > > tried to boot it over my home network. > > After getting the tftpboot.img file and installing t

Re: Troubles booting sparcstation over a network

2000-01-09 Thread Ruprecht Jaeschke
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Maarten Vink wrote: > After successfully installing debian on my PC, I thought I'd give my old > Sparcstation a try. Since I don't have a monitor or floppy drive for it, I > tried to boot it over my home network. > After getting the tftpboot.img file and installing tftp on my P

Troubles booting sparcstation over a network

2000-01-09 Thread Maarten Vink
Hello everybody, After successfully installing debian on my PC, I thought I'd give my old Sparcstation a try. Since I don't have a monitor or floppy drive for it, I tried to boot it over my home network. After getting the tftpboot.img file and installing tftp on my PC, I got the following error me

question about floppy drive support

2000-01-09 Thread ferret
I've been having bad troubles with the FDD on my Sparc IPX. Well, I booted the 2.2.14 a.out kernel from the new testing run of install disks, and after a fresh install with the old 2.2.1-based Slink disks I can access the FDD. I slipped a floppy in and could cat it without any trouble. Then I inst

Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing

2000-01-09 Thread Eric Delaunay
Ben Collins wrote: > > 3. booting from network+nfsroot (linux-a.out from sun4cdm/ and root.tar.gz) > > --- > > > > Report: can boot the kernel but was unable to mount the nfsroot fs because > > this > > kernel is not config