Re: Is it me, or are the disks not cool? (fwd)
- Forwarded message from Eric Delaunay - >> I get the same thing on my IPX, but if I take the same disks and try them >> in an older Sparc 1 or 1+ they work just fine. Could this be a ROM version >> thing? I'm sure the ROM versions in the 1/1+ is 1.x_something but the IPX >> is 2.4. I have no trouble booting a rescue disk set on the IPX with serial >> console which I downloaded from vger some weeks ago... > Is the SILO code put on the disk dependent of the PROM version ? > I created the boot disk on a SparcClassic. It also works well on Sparc2. I assume so. I recall RedHat 4.0 Sparc had two different boot floppy images, one for 1.x and another for 2.x and up PROM's... I'll try the rescue disk I got from vger which boots fine on the IPX on a few other machines and let you know if that works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XServer?
>I try to setup a SparcStation SLC as an X-Terminal, but I can't find any >X-Server. Is it somewhere where I can't see it, or is there none? I tried to >steel one from a redhat system, but it can't set the fontpath (though the >directory exists and is full of fonts.) Hmm, maybe I should automate this reply... There is an experimental xserver-xsun package at ftp.netg.se:/pub/Linux/sparc/X that you can try. It doesn't support gzip:ed fonts, so you need to run xfs and pass it a font path on startup (-fp tcp/:7100). Check the list archives for more details. Regards, /Anders -- -- Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Anders Hammarquist | Mud at Kingdoms| [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetGuide Scandinavia | telnet kingdoms.se 1812| Fax: +46 31 50 79 39 http://www.netg.se | | Tel: +46 31 50 79 40 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gcc? kernel sources?
i imagine i need a set of patched sources to get to compile gcc2.8.1 and newer kernels... but i can't seem to find them. i've looked in debian.org, redhat.com, rutgers.edu... but no luck. can someone tell me where else can i look, or where should i double check? also: how can i compile other GNU compilers (G77, GCL, G-Pascal...)? i'm setting up a lab with 40 SparcStation4 machines and wouldn't like to see solaris on them! thanks in advance alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XServer?
Hello, I try to setup a SparcStation SLC as an X-Terminal, but I can't find any X-Server. Is it somewhere where I can't see it, or is there none? I tried to steel one from a redhat system, but it can't set the fontpath (though the directory exists and is full of fonts.) Has anyone an idea how I can get X on that machine? Thanks Alexander -- ,,, (o o) +-oOO--(_)--OOo--/"T""T"""T | Alexander Schulz | Tel: +49 721 812347 | ... because you are always as | | Bunsenstrasse 11 | EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| dead as you think you are! | | 76135 Karlsruhe | karlsruhe.de| (D. Adams : mostly harmless) | +--+--+---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: still no joy with new disks
thanks for the tip - it looks like the SCSI ids was the problem, i've now got through the reboot (although not quite got it set up for an automatic reboot yet) and am currently running dselect to install a basic system. thank-you for all your help, eric, and others. on a different note, the standard dselect choses a set of package which don't quite install without dependency problems: iamerican and ibritish depend on ispell (not available) ncurses-dev, libstdc++, libc6-dev, and maybe one other depended on a specific version of libc6, which wasn't available. if these require compiling (if i sort out a working development system) then i'm happy to do it if someone talks me through the process. otherwise, regard this as merely a baby-bug report :-) once again, thanks everybody... -duncan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
