Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Martin
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 23:44 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 23:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The daily built images of the installer for sparc [1] have kernel > > > 2.6.20. I don't know if the rewrite happened before or after that > > >

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Newport
Chris Andrew wrote: Ludovic, That's interesting. Do you know where I can download an ISO that has the re-written module? I prefer debian, but at the moment, any linux would do. Many thanks, Chris. The latest gregbeta release of splack should work. Be warned, however, that it is still i

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 23:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The daily built images of the installer for sparc [1] have kernel > > 2.6.20. I don't know if the rewrite happened before or after that > > release, but it is somewhat more recent than the Etch kernel.

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The daily built images of the installer for sparc [1] have kernel 2.6.20. > I don't know if the rewrite happened before or after that release, but it > is somewhat more recent than the Etch kernel. The rewrite dates back to April [0] while 2.6.20 was

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
(Please do _not_ CC people who obviously read the mailing list!) On Tuesday 17 July 2007 22:56, Chris Andrew wrote: > That's interesting. Do you know where I can download an ISO that has > the re-written module? I prefer debian, but at the moment, any linux > would do. The daily built images of

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Andrew
Ludovic, That's interesting. Do you know where I can download an ISO that has the re-written module? I prefer debian, but at the moment, any linux would do. Many thanks, Chris. On 17/07/07, Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Possibly th

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Possibly this is covered by the errata for the Etch installer (esp module > broken) [1]. > > It is one of the many issues that contribute to the decision to drop > support for sparc32... > > [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/ E

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Andrew
I did modprobe esp and it didn't work. I remember in previous years that I had to insert esp and that was fine, so it sounds like you may be right. I am currently trying an install of netbsd :-(. Cheers, Chris. On 17/07/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:58,

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:58, Chris Andrew wrote: > All my CD's boot fine, it really look like a module isn't being loaded. > As I say, Sarg loads fine. The installer starts, and then hangs when > doing hardware detection for modules. Possibly this is covered by the errata for the Etch installe

Re: [ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Andrew
All my CD's boot fine, it really look like a module isn't being loaded. As I say, Sarg loads fine. The installer starts, and then hangs when doing hardware detection for modules. On 17/07/07, Eric Rapilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: did you try to clean it with a cleaner Cdrom ? you may be abl