Re: Why did I get no response? Was:Understanding the porting process

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas A. Cort
> Why did I get no respone on my question(s) of yesterday morning? Mainly because they don't have to do with Debian. If I understand your questions, you want to compile the Linux Kernel, GCC, glibc, and some other stuff under solaris and end up with a working Linux system. This is more of a Linu

Re: Why did I get not one response? Was:Understanding the porting process

2003-05-29 Thread ndade
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:22:36AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it because my questions are so stupid? It is because your question is hard. You desire to build linux from scratch. That requires understanding more options than anyone cares to list here. There is a web site all about it. htt

Re: does not match kernel data

2003-05-29 Thread Lito A. Lampitoc
Thanks. I removed system.map.2.2.22 from / and see if /boot contains the same file as my build and it looks correct (i have system.map.2.2.22 in my /boot). uname -a reports: Linux buttercup 2.2.22 #1 Tue May 27 13:09:38 PHT 2003 sparc unknown however, none of this worked :( if I may add, my previou

Why did I get no response? Was:Understanding the porting process

2003-05-29 Thread debian_noob
Hello guys! Why did I get no respone on my question(s) of yesterday morning? (I search the failures here on my side first!) Is it because my English is bad? (But many native English speakers told me that my skill in this language is enough so that my writings can be understood by the readers.) I

Re: Why did I get not one response? Was:Understanding the porting process

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:22:36AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello guys! It's because you are asking a FAQ that is better answered by a search on google and not by expecting someone to write a 5 page essay for you. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.

Why did I get not one response? Was:Understanding the porting process

2003-05-29 Thread debian_noob
Hello guys! Can someone tell me, please, what the reason is that I did not get one response for my question(s) of yesterday morning? (Here I search the fault and failure first on my side!) Is it because my English is so bad? (This I can not believe as some native English speakers told me that m

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
> > I would prefer the term "different" to "better". :) Me too. "better" is always relative to the user, not the entire userbase. Different strokes for different folks and all that :) -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.ti

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Steve Pacenka
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 17:36, Rhonda R. Wilson wrote: > My son and I have decided to learn the Linux OS so that we can get off > Microsoft OS and have a mutual project between us. We have a Sun Ultra5 w/ > Sparc processor and at the moment it has Solaris 8 installed, but I plan on > putting Debian

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Irvin Probst
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 02:48, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On the other hand, i have been using debian for a few years on i386 and > it was a bit of a stuggle to get it onto my IPC [sun4c] IMHO linux is not the best choice for sun4c hardware, I think that even Solaris 7 runs faster, not to mention tha

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:04:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > Rhonda R. Wilson said: > > > Is this the right spot? > > im sure people here will be more then happy to help but if your > household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start > with a "easier to install/use" distribution first

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 18:28, Thomas A. Cort wrote: > > household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start > > with a "easier to install/use" distribution first before going to > > debian(which is easier to manage in the long run usually). > For a really easy to use Linux distributio

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas A. Cort
> household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start > with a "easier to install/use" distribution first before going to > debian(which is easier to manage in the long run usually). For a really easy to use Linux distribution for the Sparc32 and Sparc64 platforms you may want to tr

Newbie questions...

2003-05-29 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Hey, all. I'm trying to broaden my horizons, so I've taken one of my infra- structure machines that was running NetBSD and I've installed Woody on it. One thing I notice right off the bat is that things are a good bit more sluggish in terms of user interaction. I don't yet know why this is, but I

Re: sparc64 and ipsec

2003-05-29 Thread Andreas Pettersson
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > There is a backport of the IPsec implementation from 2.5 to 2.4. See > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/davem/IPSEC/linux-2.4.21-ipsec.patch > > It's totally unsupported, but might work for you. > Thanks, at a first glance it seems to work, now

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread nate
Rhonda R. Wilson said: > Is this the right spot? im sure people here will be more then happy to help but if your household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start with a "easier to install/use" distribution first before going to debian(which is easier to manage in the long run us

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:36:24PM -0400, Rhonda R. Wilson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to this listing and wanted to make sure that I am in the right > place. > > My son and I have decided to learn the Linux OS so that we can get off > Microsoft OS and have a mutual project between us. We h

Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Rhonda R. Wilson
Hello all, I am new to this listing and wanted to make sure that I am in the right place. My son and I have decided to learn the Linux OS so that we can get off Microsoft OS and have a mutual project between us. We have a Sun Ultra5 w/ Sparc processor and at the moment it has Solaris 8 installed

Re: Software RAID on UltraLinux 2.4.18/19 needs patch, or use 2.4.20+

2003-05-29 Thread nate
Philip L. McMahon said: > Nate, > > I experienced a similar problem on my Ultra 30 a while back. As I > recall, I would get a similar oops when I tried to write to the drives, > even though they would mount successfully. Kernel version 2.4.20 (and > above) solved the problem; a patch is needed for

Software RAID on UltraLinux 2.4.18/19 needs patch, or use 2.4.20+

2003-05-29 Thread Philip L. McMahon
Nate, I experienced a similar problem on my Ultra 30 a while back. As I recall, I would get a similar oops when I tried to write to the drives, even though they would mount successfully. Kernel version 2.4.20 (and above) solved the problem; a patch is needed for prior versions. I'm currently runni

Re: sparc64 and ipsec

2003-05-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:33:31PM +0200, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > I've been planning to test ipsec on my Ultra 1. > But it seems that the FreeS/WAN kernel patches for 2.4.x won't compile on > sparc64 and 2.5.69 was horribly unstable. > So my question now is if there is any other way of getting

Re: cdrom boot/install problems with Woody on SunBlade100

2003-05-29 Thread Keven Haynes
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:04:10PM -0400, Keven Haynes wrote: > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > I appreciate your help with this, but I'm still not able to boot my > > system. Am I missing a key step anywhere? > > > > I downloaded the iso image you directed me

Re: cdrom boot/install problems with Woody on SunBlade100

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:24:43PM -0400, Keven Haynes wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote: > > > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:04:10PM -0400, Keven Haynes wrote: > > > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > I appreciate your help with this, but I'm still not able to boot my > > > system. Am I mis

Re: cdrom boot/install problems with Woody on SunBlade100

2003-05-29 Thread Keven Haynes
Hi Ben, I appreciate your help with this, but I'm still not able to boot my system. Am I missing a key step anywhere? I downloaded the iso image you directed me to, and am booting from it. At the "boot:" prompt I have tried "/sparc64 initrd=/root.bin" both with and without the "ide=nodma" appe

Re: cdrom boot/install problems with Woody on SunBlade100

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:04:10PM -0400, Keven Haynes wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > I appreciate your help with this, but I'm still not able to boot my > system. Am I missing a key step anywhere? > > I downloaded the iso image you directed me to, and am booting from it. At > the "boot:" prompt I hav

Re: cdrom boot/install problems with Woody on SunBlade100

2003-05-29 Thread Keven Haynes
So, are you saying that there is no way to install a SunBlade100 directly from cdrom, or is there something special that I should be doing with the tftp image? (I don't have a rarp/bootp/dhcp/tftp server at my disposal.) On Tue, 27 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote: > > /boot/sparc64 > > initrd=/d

Re: cdrom boot/install problems with Woody on SunBlade100

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:17:16PM -0400, Keven Haynes wrote: > > So, are you saying that there is no way to install a SunBlade100 directly > from cdrom, or is there something special that I should be doing with the > tftp image? (I don't have a rarp/bootp/dhcp/tftp server at my disposal.) Nop

Re: 2.4.21pre6 kernel Load problem on/for sun4u

2003-05-29 Thread satadru
3001328 May 29 11:45 image* Can I run "gzip -9vc image > image-2.4.21-pre6" on it and have the system boot from the resultant compressed image? I get this then, which is smaller than the image I am currently booting from (though that image is a gzipped vmlinux file: 1286923 May 29 11:47 ima

Re: 2.4.21pre6 kernel Load problem on/for sun4u

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:41:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now that I can get a kernel compile to work, I was wondering if there's any > way to overcome the kernel size limit that seems to be hitting me. > > The kernel I built seems to be too big to be loaded at boot time. > > I howeve

2.4.21pre6 kernel Load problem on/for sun4u

2003-05-29 Thread satadru
Now that I can get a kernel compile to work, I was wondering if there's any way to overcome the kernel size limit that seems to be hitting me. The kernel I built seems to be too big to be loaded at boot time. I however want to build a kernel with as few modules as possible. I heard something a

Re: IEEE1394 + 2.4.20 compile problem on/for sun4u

2003-05-29 Thread satadru
The problem ended up coming from having CONFIG_STACK_DEBUG in my .config ; The kernel compilation succeeded this time. Thanks to Matthew French and Ben Collins for helping me with this. -- The greatness of the United States is that it corrects its errors. -Octavio Paz

Re: ethernet lockup on ultra 1

2003-05-29 Thread Dave Love
Irvin Probst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 02:17, nate wrote: >> >> can someone provide a link to this HME patch? > > Iirc Ben Collins included it in his 2.4.19 package. Unless there's a more recent version than what I can see, he didn't in the end. See bug #164680. It see

Re: does not match kernel data

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
> I copied System.map-2.2.22 to / as per advised from the web, but doesnt > work. What do you think is the problem here. Is this a serious error? > Hope you could help me here. Delete it from / and make sure the one in /boot matches your kernel build. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux

Understanding the porting process

2003-05-29 Thread debian_noob
Hello to all Woody and Sparc Fans! I want to understand the porting process so I began with C and systems programming. And I purchased a Sun Ultra5 with Solaris8 preinstalled. Now I want to get the GNU tools and the Linux Kernel and compile them part for part(on the Solaris-Ultra5) so that last

does not match kernel data

2003-05-29 Thread Lito A. Lampitoc
Hi All, after upgrading from kernel-2.2.20 to 2.2.22, using make-kpkg I got the following error while doing ps: {iommu_get_scsi_one_gflush} {___f_mmu_get_scsi_one} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.22 does not match kernel data. I copied System.map-2.2.22 to / as per advised from the web, but doesnt