Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Today, 38 minutes, 0 second ago, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > The installation is not over yet but it seems to be working well, > > except that it did not automatically find out which driver to use for > > the Ethernet card (`sunlance'), nor for t

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 08 January 2006 15:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Actually, this installer has a couple of other problems. It was unable > to properly finish the base install because some packages, namely > `dash', `cramfsprogs' and `initrd-tools', could not be authenticated. > I installed them by hand u

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The installation is not over yet but it seems to be working well, > except that it did not automatically find out which driver to use for > the Ethernet card (`sunlance'), nor for the hard drive (`esp'). Could you send the output of 'prtc

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Yesterday, 21 hours, 3 minutes, 57 seconds ago, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I'm using the latest and greatest installer, with a 2.4 kernel though: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/20051026/images/sparc32/netboot/boot.img > MD5: da03e8b5b6a1bfd577a29aef14d26dd4 > >

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Today, 34 minutes, 3 seconds ago, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > If you still have trouble: which bootimage (URL)? I can try to check it for > you. I'm using the latest and greatest installer, with a 2.4 kernel though: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/20051026/images/sparc32/n

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 16:44 schrieb Frans Pop: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, > > none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard > > drive that's in the machine (a look

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Today, one hour, 12 minutes, 49 seconds ago, Frans Pop wrote: > During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot > time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection > phases. Ok, I guess I was too impatient. ;-) It turns out that I needed the `esp'

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. The SS20 is the latest 32bit Sparc workstation - max. 2 CPU modules, up to 4 CPUs. No PCI, it's SBUS based. On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:44, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically,

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, > none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard > drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me > think so), although a `