Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink)
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Detlev Zundel wrote: It is indeed `s' as I managed to write a Sun label by now - but it does still not occurr in the help. The thing is, I remember it being there (on the help). Cause I wouldn't have known which one to use otherwise... So, I'd like to find out why it doesn't show on yours. It's one of those perverse realities, I'm afraid. If your disk has already been formatted with DOS-style partitions, the s option does not appear. It is, however, present, even though invisible; just type an s at the prompt, and you should see a Sun disklabel screen. In any case, you will also need to install SILO, so that the firmware will know how to boot from your disk. This ought to happen at the make Linux bootable from hard disk step. Best wishes! John Chapman[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-sparc CD
Hi, where can I buy (cheap!) the debian sparc CD's. The local New Zealand dealer has only the i386 CD's and you usually pay for a bunch of rather useless guide books. Anyone in the group who burns them for 30 bucks or so? I am unfortunatelly unable to download the images and toast them myself (estimated download time is 32 hours). Manfred
Re: XSun docs?
can you give me a hint where to find docs about the XSun X server? Everything is welcome! :-) Have you tried the man page Xsun(1x)? What are you looking for? /Anders -- -- Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Anders Hammarquist | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics student | Hem: +46 31 47 69 27 Chalmers University of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden | Mob: +46 707 27 86 87
Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink)
John Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The thing is, I remember it being there (on the help). Cause I wouldn't have known which one to use otherwise... So, I'd like to find out why it doesn't show on yours. It's one of those perverse realities, I'm afraid. If your disk has already been formatted with DOS-style partitions, the s option does not appear. It is, however, present, even though invisible; just type an s at the prompt, and you should see a Sun disklabel screen. This automatic hiding of the option was presumably intended as a convenience. Unfortunately, judging by the discussions in debian-sparc, it must have caused hundreds of hours of people's time to be wasted ... Edmund
Re: XSun docs?
Hi... On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Anders Hammarquist wrote: can you give me a hint where to find docs about the XSun X server? Have you tried the man page Xsun(1x)? Of course. :-) What are you looking for? I'm searching for a more detailed explanation (than in the man page) of the available command line options, and the file format the -xkbdb and the -xkbmap option expects. Thanks in advance. Andreas Jaehnigen
Re: debian-sparc CD
Hi, where can I buy (cheap!) the debian sparc CD's. www.cheapbytes.com has them. $8.95 US. That should keep it under 30 bucks even with shipping costs. I am unfortunatelly unable to download the images and toast them myself (estimated download time is 32 hours). 32 hours isn't bad! You cannot possibly expect to order and receive a CD in less time than that, can you? Eric
Re: DOSEMU
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:57:56 -0500 (EST), Matthew Haas wrote: Yes, I know DOSEMU is largely x86 dependant. Nonetheless, I am wondering if anyone has ever gotten it to run on non-x86 machines. I seem to remember reading a while back talk of people running it on an Alpha... Anywho... I am currently playing with 0.64.4, mainly because it's the oldest copy I could find (less x86 specific features). My problem is that it is requiring as86 and ld86 ... is there a package available with these (I saw an m68k binutils... would it be in the multiarch?)... I just want to see how far I can get with it... be nice to play some of my old DOS games again on my LX without giving up too much speed. DOSemu 0.64.4 is actually very x86 specific: it uses the vm86 system call directly. The newer versions (0.98 and 0.99) also do that, but they have less x86 dependencies and have a generally cleaner architecture. You might be interested to know that Alberto Vignani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is working on a CPU emulator for DOSemu. I don't know about the current state, but you can get his patch against DOSemu 0.99.12.2 from http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/7677/ . Erik (once a DOSemu hacker, nowadays a dosemu-development list lurker) -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2785859 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
Re: debian-sparc CD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, where can I buy (cheap!) the debian sparc CD's. www.cheapbytes.com has them. $8.95 US. That should keep it under 30 bucks even with shipping costs. I am unfortunatelly unable to download the images and toast them myself (estimated download time is 32 hours). 32 hours isn't bad! You cannot possibly expect to order and receive a CD in less time than that, can you No. But I have to pay for connection time and traffic and the download would cost therefore about $100!! Eric
