Re: New modutils uploaded

[Akor]

Wichert Akkerman writes:

I just uploaded motudils 2.3.7-1. This should fix all the problems
with sparc32/sparc64 systems.. can somone confirm that?

They do work on my SPARCStation 4 running pure potato, kernel 2.2.13.
Thanks.

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slink and potato #2

[daniel alvarez]

Yesterday I wrote a mail in which I asked you for help about how to get
potato-packages running on a slink system. The installation of some of
them,
invoked by 'dpkg -i package' failed with with the error message
install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory.
So I took a look at /usr/sbin/install-info, which is a perl-script. The
code looks like this:

if (!$nowrite  !link($infodir/dir, $infodir/dir.lock)) {
   die $name: failed to lock dir for editing! !$\n.
  ($! =~ m/exists/i ? try deleting $infodir/dir/lock ?\n : '');
}

$infodir has been previosly set to /usr/info
mkdir-ing manually /usr/bin/dir changes the scripts return value from
2 to 17 and the output accordingly to ... file exists.

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sd-partition

[Manfred Plagmann]

Hi,
I inherited a Sun IPX which did not start up. I down loaded Debian-sparc
on the weekend and found that the machine was booting :)) I installed
the  floppy disk base version and all seems OK the computer is however
not booting by its own and needs a boot disk. What did I miss when I
installed the system or is it not possible to have the IPX boot directly
from the HD? I guess that I forgot something when I set the partitions
of the primary disk. The installation manual on the debian server is
unfortunately incomplete (at least on the Australian and the US server)
as no text follows the  subsection heading Partitioning prior to
installation.  At startup the loader complains that the magic word on
the boot disk is missing. How can I set this word.

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,
Manfred

Re: sd-partition

[ferret]

I'm also running an IPX, mine with a serial console. Running serial
console on one of these is really the best way of getting it working,
insofar as you can capture boot monitor output. I'd ask you to do
'printenv' from the openprom and post it.

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Manfred Plagmann wrote:

 Hi,
 I inherited a Sun IPX which did not start up. I down loaded Debian-sparc
 on the weekend and found that the machine was booting :)) I installed
 the  floppy disk base version and all seems OK the computer is however
 not booting by its own and needs a boot disk. What did I miss when I
 installed the system or is it not possible to have the IPX boot directly
 from the HD? I guess that I forgot something when I set the partitions
 of the primary disk. The installation manual on the debian server is
 unfortunately incomplete (at least on the Australian and the US server)
 as no text follows the  subsection heading Partitioning prior to
 installation.  At startup the loader complains that the magic word on
 the boot disk is missing. How can I set this word.
 
 Any help is appreciated.
 
 Cheers,
 Manfred