> - I have to install without the benefit of a monitor or keyboard, how do I =
> get
> the resce flopppy to eject so I can insert the root disk?
A very vague reply:
I think you can exit to the PROM and tell the PROM "eject-floppy" and
then "continue". I forget the exact commands. Try "help".
A
> I 've installed a debian potato on sparc 1 without problem (exept mysql ;)
> but now o a sparc station LX (sun4m) slilo don't run , in fact the install
> is ok but when slilo run, after reboot, the system tell me : wrong label
(You mean SILO?)
Earlier I suggested that something like the follow
A couple of questions appeared in my mind while upgrading to 2.2.10:
(1) This business of having to install /etc/init.d/devpts.sh from
potato's libc6 to make a recent 2.2.x kernel work if
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS is selected. It's not too hard to do by hand, but
it doesn't seem right that people should
> I've experience on compiling the Linux kernel for i386 systems but not for
> SPARC. I want to compile a kernel myself for my SPARC, but have no idea on
> how to do it. Is there any information somewhere about it?
It's the same as on Intel, really, except that the kernel image
produced is /usr/sr
> Sorry if this thread's getting a little long, but for the price of the
> chip and ease of fitting I wouldn't suggest it's worth the effort.
>
> Then again, if you're the sort of person who's trying to set up Linux on
> a Sparc...
If your machine is on a network, consider using xntp3 to keep its
> I have an IPX that I have tried to install Sparc Debian on but
> afterthe
> boot tries to detect the devices it detects the cd rom drivs a Sony CDU-8012
> it
> starts resetting the bus this drive works fine with solaris and is listed as
> SUN Cd drive that was OEMed for Sun by Sony. I h
I'm sending these notes to the list because some people might be
interested, and some people might have advice for me about how I could
have done it better.
Building a SPARC kernel on an Intel machine
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I did this partly because my Intel machine (233 Bog
Sorry to be slightly off-topic, but does anyone have any recent
experience of how much second-hand Sun computers are worth? If so I'd
be grateful for any data points (model and price) as there's a whole
lot coming up for auction here soon and I might try to get one.
The machines to be sold include
Several people have asked about this recently, or had problems with
all the methods described in the installation manual.
There does seem to be another way, which might be worth mentioning in
the installation manual, where you copy the rescue and root floppy
images onto a spare partition, then boo
> Is the Linux kernel source for Sparc the same as the i386 one?
> If not, where should I get the Sparc one from?
I built kernels for Sparc and x86 using the same source, version
2.2.5. It may be that patches are required for some features which I
don't use, though.
Edmund
> Funny, you say above that it's ok to put a file system partition on
> cylinder zero (and the silo documentation agrees). But here you say
> you had to put a non-partition to keep that cylinder blank.
It's a real partition, just unused, namely:
Device FlagStart End Blocks Id Sy
> > I want to install Suse Linux 5.2 on a Sun Sparc2 without CD-ROM drive .
> > So I put the SCSI hard drive on a PC, installed linux and reboot . Lilo
> > & Linux start . OK, so I put the HD on the Sparc.
> > When boot I have the following message :
> >
> > Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80
I solved it! It boots!
And I think the solution should go into the installation notes
somewhere. Please consider adding something like this. (The crucial
and new bit is the start of paragraph 2.)
===
The installation system give
> You can't have swap as the first partition on the disk. The boot
> loader and the swap overwrite each other.
My first partition starts at 1, rather than 0, because fdisk warned me
about that problem. But I can't boot even if I run swapoff before
running silo before shutdown -h and attempted reb
I downloaded Eric's latest floppy images (2.1.8) today and reinstalled
using them. They worked with no problems this time: dbootstrap didn't
die once!
Unfortunately, I still can't boot from [EMAIL PROTECTED],0. Here's what I get on
the screen, in case it helps:
Rebooting with command: disk3
> Get the ``eject'' package and type ``eject floppy''.
Thanks!
> > (3) I'm still looking for a way of booting Linux from a hard drive ...
>
> Go into the PROM monitor, get into ``new command mode'' and type ``boot
> disk''.
> You will need SILO to be set up properly, of course.
I have Linux on
(1) /dev/MAKEDEV gives /dev/sunmouse the wrong major device number: it
should be 10, not 11. Grep /dev/MAKEDEV for "sunmouse"; it's in there
twice.
(2) Can someone please tell me how to eject a floppy without using the
PROM?
(3) I'm still looking for a way of booting Linux from a hard drive ...
Shurik:
> I've made some additional testing and found out that dbootstrap just segfaults
> while trying to "Configure the Base System". First of all, its PID changes
> when it goes to the initial message. That meens, I guess, it was restarted
> (the same behaviour if I kill it by hands). So I've t
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