how are y'all making bootfloppies?
I've been trying to hack up mkboot to work, with no success (yet). Is there a script everyone else has been using that I've just missed? Ari Heitner DC: 703/5733512 CMU: 412/8622699 Non c'è più forza nella normalità: c'è solo monotonia.
Re: how are y'all making bootfloppies?
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 05:52:56PM -0500, Ari Heitner wrote: I've been trying to hack up mkboot to work, with no success (yet). Is there a script everyone else has been using that I've just missed? Ari Heitner DC: 703/5733512 CMU: 412/8622699 Non c'? pi? forza nella normalit?: c'? solo monotonia. For debian, we use the boot-floppies package. There are some scripts there (most of them out of the range of normal users), but they can give you a good idea of the process. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: TFTPbooting potato?
Would anyone have gotten a working i386-sparc cross-compiler that could fairly easily be packaged? If not, I'll look at modifying the m68k cross-compiler package in Potato, but last try on that (~4 weeks ago) it would not build. -- Beiad Ian Q. Dalton On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Ari Heitner wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: Machine type would be helpful. Also, trying each of the boot types (tftp, floppy) and reporting success and failures is also helpful. You can also try building your own kernel and testing that with the floppy images (just mount them and replace linux with your kernel image). Could you post the .config you're using to build the c and cdm kernels? That way we could play around and see what works/doesn't. I'll be home on spring break this coming week, and my IPX will be up and idle, so I can do some toying around (well, I can reboot and hope it come up :) Ari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:42:29AM -0500, Ari Heitner wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: Well, I finally got ahold of a sparc 1+ sun4c to test the floppy boot images, and to my dismay, they worked perfectly (both the sun4c and Yeah, I think i said this (meant to if i didn't). I took the bootdisk I had been using for my 1+, tried it on my IPX, and it died with the funky read error. BTW i did use an i386 box to write the images Ok, then it sounds like we are having problems with only IPX and IPC. Does anyone know anything about the floppy on this architecture? Are there known issues? Note, that the sun4c images are using a non-compressed kernel, so it isn't a matter of CPU/Mem. Plus it never reads the entire image anyway. Ben I know I was never able to do anything with the floppy on my IPX (read 'cat /dev/fd0 | less', write 'cat /foo/bar /dev/fd0', or format 'superformat') past performing the initial install (from Slink) and could never figure out any answers or suggestions. I usually would get about a screenful (~40 lines) of what I remember were mostly timing and sense key errors? -- Beiad Ian Q. Dalton
Re: TFTPbooting potato?
On Mar 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrawled : Would anyone have gotten a working i386-sparc cross-compiler that could fairly easily be packaged? If not, I'll look at modifying the m68k cross-compiler package in Potato, but last try on that (~4 weeks ago) it would not build. no. I have tried to get gcc2.95-2 to compile as a 386i -- sparc x-compiler but it would not build. If you get the m68k one working, I would love to hear from you. compiling on an ELC compared to a dual celery 450 is marked. cya, -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Do not tempt the daemons [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| -- Why? Can they hurt me? || No. But it's ... tacky. --Adam, atsr
NIS+ Client Support Available / libpam_unix help needed
Over the past few months (shortly after my ITP), Debian-NIS+ Client support was developed by a small group of non-Debian maintainers. I post on debian-devel, to make the effort known among the Debian developers and the SPARC users, who might work in a SUN NIS+ environment AND to ask for libpam_unix help (see below). To get access to the NIS+ client package (i386) for Debian (potato) include deb http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ deb-src http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list To install your Debian system as a NIS+ client do apt-get install nisplus libpam-unix2 Then read the doc in /usr/share/doc/nisplus. The package is based on SUSE's libpam_unix2 package, because the nisplus provided from Thorsten Kukuk from SUSE) package does not work with Debian's libpam_unix. With Debian's libpam_unix the client machine must be in the admin group on the nis+ server. With libpam_unix2 there's no need for that security hole. Ben Collins is looking on the problem, but due to his many other functions in the Debian project, he is short of time. The integration of the Debian NIS+ package in the Debian distribution would proceed faster, if somebody else would be looking in the PAM problem. I think some experience with the libpam_unix implementation is required. Certainly, nis+ access would be an advantage. The packaging work was done by Michael Feger (University of Karlsruhe), testing and documentation was done by Sebastien Chaumat and Pascal Degiovanni(Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon). Both can be reached via the debian-nis+ mailalias [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to be added to the alias, please send a short email to me. Thanks. Rainer. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni StuttgartTel.: 0711-7816-215
Re: NIS+ Client Support Available / libpam_unix help needed
The integration of the Debian NIS+ package in the Debian distribution would proceed faster, if somebody else would be looking in the PAM problem. I think some experience with the libpam_unix implementation is required. Certainly, nis+ access would be an advantage. Just to clarify what needs to be done. I did not want to include a module called pam_unix2.so for fear of confusion with users. What I would like to see is the NIS+ functionality from pam_unix2.so to be merged into and work seemlessly with the current pam_unix.so. Atleast this way, the changes can be merged upstream, and integration is easier (e.g. just add nisplus to the modules options in the pam config files to enable the functionality). The folks the did all the work for this need a big thank you for the work they have been doing. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
FAQlist?
Hi. Is there a FAQ list? I have a few questions that I think would just
annoy most experienced {ultra,}sparc users.
- chad
Re: FAQlist?
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:15:18PM -0500, Chad Miller wrote:
Hi. Is there a FAQ list? I have a few questions that I think would just
annoy most experienced {ultra,}sparc users.
There is a FAQ for sparc linux in general at:
http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html
at the moment it doesn't have very much that is debian specific. But
if you don't find what your looking for, as Ben said just ask the
list.
Jim
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