Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed

2007-05-07 Thread jim
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Machine is a stock Sun Blade with 256MB of memory, 20GB hard drive. Etch 4.0r0 official release netboot media fails - Boot from CD rom from SILO succeeds, then machine hangs trying to boot Linux. This is 2.6.18-4 Same here with 2.6.18 but it works with boot Linux

Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed

2007-05-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:43:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: A Sun Blade 100 which had a Debian Sarge installation on failed with initially lots of network errors occurring in the logs. [Ubuntu installer] died at about 85% installed :( Those two sound more like hardware problems, if it

Java for Iceape

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
What package should I be using to tack Java onto Iceape in an off-the-shelf Etch for SPARC? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:28:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:43:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: A Sun [Ubuntu installer] died at about 85% installed :( Those two sound more like hardware problems, if it happens so haphazardly? SILO boots, kernel loads

Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed

2007-05-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: The kernel stanza in silo.conf should simply have an additional: initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.something Can you post me a complete silo.conf so that I can see what the boot and root arguments should be. I'm not sure