Re: cd-rom not found
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:23 -0600, Donny Jekels wrote: I recently purchased debian 3.1 for sparc platforms during boot the cdrom is found but immediately after the install program search for devices it no longer knows about the cd-rom and keeps telling me the cd-rom is not found or the cd-rom is not in the tray/ I tried it on 2 boxes, sunfire v100 and my desktop blade 100 I just went through this just last week and finally got it to work. Here is what I did: I downloaded the netinstall iso and booted from it and choose the expert installation. At the point where it would search for the cdrom, scroll down and open a shell first. do a modprobe of the following modules: alim15x3 ide-cd ide-disk tulip Then check to see if /dev/cdrom points to a valid device. It should point into /dev/ide/.. This path should contain devices (down the directory tree a ways) for both your cd and your disks. You can even try mounting the cdrom to make sure that you can. Then exit the shell and continue on with the cdrom detection and installation. I have found that the cdrom driver in this configuration is not entirely reliable for heavy loads. Sometimes the cdrom will just lock up and I had to reset and reboot the machine again several times. Each time I would get a little further in the process until it completed. Once the system is installed the cd/dvd drive seems to be much more stable. Good luck. __ Spam Not spam Forget previous vote -- Daniel R. Bidwell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrews University | Information Technology Services If two always agree, one of them is unnecessary Friends don't let friends do DOS In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, however, they are not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Introduction and First Question that I've never been able to answer...
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:20, Ivan Dahlberg wrote: Greetings everyone I have been using Debian sparc for several years covering sun4c/m/u architectures and am a certified Sun field technician. I look forward to helping the list out when it comes to dealing with hardware issues as well as OS/software related. I run all sparc Debian and solaris at home and am the Field Team Lead for the company I work for by day. My major administration question is; How on earth do I get Debian to handle the OBP setting of 'local-mac-address' properly so that I have the unique mac addresses provided from the card installed and not the hostid of the box? I have an Ultra 5 running 2.4.17 that has a Sun Quad Ethernet card in it. This machine is running as a firewall and every ethernet interface has a unique MAC address. I don't think that I did anything special to get this. I am running Debian 3.0 also. On the other hand, I haven't found anyone that has been able to get the dmfe ethernet nic's in the Sun SunFire to work with linux yet. I have 8 SunFire V100 servers, some of which I would like to run linux on, but can't because of the ethernet drivers. I see this setting doesn't get handled by 2.2 or by 2.4 by default out of the box (or at all) and I would like to ensure that my unique MACs are actually the ones on the cards themselves. Solaris handles this all very nicely on the same box. I primarily want this answered so I can have unique and accurate MAC's on my firewall and my file server has a pair of RSM 2000 attached with several NICs running solaris. I discovered that when dealing with cheaper consumer switches under Debian or solaris, leaving the MAC addresses set to default of non unique based on the hostid results in much NFS grief between Debian clients (on sparc or intel) and Solaris NFS servers. Thank you -Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel R. Bidwell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrews University Computer Science Information Systems Department If two always agree, one of them is unnecessary Friends don't let friends do DOS In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, however, they are not.
Debian on Sun SunFire V100
Has anyone installed Debian 3.0 on the Sun SunFire V100? I have attempted it and the install went very smoothly, except for the ethernet interfaces. The kernel didn't include the drivers for the Davicom DM9102. I recompiled the kernel with this driver as a module and installed it on the SunFire. The kernel recognizes the device now, but gets a continual Tx Timeout - resetting message on the console and no data will go through the ethernet interface. The switch side claims that it has full link capabilities. Has anyone else seen this kind of behaviour and how did you correct it? -- Daniel R. Bidwell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrews University Computer Science Information Systems Department If two always agree, one of them is unnecessary Friends don't let friends do DOS In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, however, they are not.
