Re: Booting Problems from Install CD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, William Sherwin wrote: I am attempting to install Debian 3.0 on a Sparc IPX that lacks a floppy drive. As I don't have root access to any other Sparcs, I cannot setup a TFTP server for boot net. Oh yes you can. There's nothing platform specific about TFTP. Just set up TFTP and rarpd on some unix/linux box and serve up the files. I think I even remember hearing about someone using tftp from an NT box, or maybe that was something else. Do you not have another *nix box to install from? bye - -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.spin.net.au/~imroy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE+6LlbotavukHNBh4RAiMsAJwN7kyfNh2yFeIM/DKgj/WCpFVQBQCgsQOP CXl62lbGmW328luat4S+PD0= =M/eq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Partitioning a big disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Selene Hernandez wrote: # mke2fs /dev/sdb16 mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Could not stat /dev/sdb16 --- No such file or directory The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly? I'm betting that /dev/sdb16 doesn't exist (surprise!). - From Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel source tree: 8 block SCSI disk devices (0-15) 0 = /dev/sda First SCSI disk whole disk 16 = /dev/sdb Second SCSI disk whole disk 32 = /dev/sdc Third SCSI disk whole disk ... 240 = /dev/sdp Sixteenth SCSI disk whole disk Partitions are handled in the same way as for IDE disks (see major number 3) except that the limit on partitions is 15. - --- So it looks like you really can't have more than 15 partitions on a scsi disk, even though the Sun disklabel (partition) format allows more than 15. You'll have to consolidate some partitions, which will be tricky. Can you backup your data to somewhere while you repartition? Does anyone know of the state of LVM or (even better) EVMS on Sparc? They'd be better solutions for serious storage management, even for personal/workstation use. bye - -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE9TlD3otavukHNBh4RAoCAAJ48pgjDYR/mnbKtczRneD1E7rCLzgCfZQwO CC8Y2PC5QKxbCfMbYt+QPs4= =wlBB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Re (2): Sound on sun4c
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, Ian others, I still do not understand how Ben got the OSS API on his Sparc. it /dev/sndstat has always been there in OSS/Free. Is OSS/Free installed with Debian Sparc 2.2.19 and just waiting to be configured? If so, where do I begin. No, it would appear that OSS/Free (and most likely the commercial OSS too) really only supports PC sound cards. For Sparc machines we have a seperate SparcAudio subsystem, and it lives in drivers/sbus/audio/ in the kernel source. It supports AMD-7930, CS-4231, and DBRI sound hardware, which seems to cover most or all SparcStation boxes. Like I said in my other post, SparcAudio does not cover the complete OSS interface. You don't get /dev/sndstat, but /dev/dsp /dev/audio and /dev/mixer all work. So pretty much any OSS-compatible software should work, baring perhaps endian issues. I don't think /dev/sndstat was ever used by any program anyway. Shell scripts, maybe. Basically it was just a simple mechanism for users to check their sound driver setup. Since the sound hardware is built into SparcStations, there's very little to screw up. The only sound API I see in the dselect list is ALSA. If there is no API already in this system, ALSA would appear to be appropriate. No, just load the sparcaudio modules or compile a kernel with them. I've always relied on my own compiled kernels so I don't really know what's included with the supplied kernels and modules. Now ALSA would be interesting to get working on Sparc. I gather that almost all developement (apart from absolutely necessary maintainance work) on OSS/Free has ceased; pretty much everyone's moved over to ALSA for quite a while. Especially work on the newer whiz-bang PCI sound cards, which is the whole reason why ALSA came about in the first place. ALSA recently went into Linus' 2.5 kernel I believe. The existing SparcAudio drivers don't appear to be that big and it might not take too much work to port them over to the ALSA framework. But audio isn't too important on the old Sparc's, so don't hold your breath. Sorry. bye - -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE9BiLgotavukHNBh4RAm6RAKCngnto9fNyQ+IMZtJfe5xeWdU96wCgvLVT wbPTB3SldiPpZMlfFjKpMZ0= =IyyI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound on sun4c
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Ben Collins wrote:
I've never heard of the sndstat device before.
You're kidding? /dev/sndstat has always been there in OSS/Free.
Here's the contents on my Athlon machine with ALSA/OSS emulation:
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Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta12 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux saavik 2.4.19-pre7-int #5 Fri May 24 21:24:31 EST 2002 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
Sound Blaster Live! at 0xdc00, irq 10
Audio devices:
0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: mixer00
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Nothing too exciting, it just lists the various services registered with the
sound system. It is useful to see what's going on though.
My system works just fine with OSS applications (granted it's an ultra, but
still).
SparcAudio is seperate to OSS/Free in the kernel and it only implements the bare
minimum OSS functionality on its own. So, /dev/{dsp,audio,audioctl,mixer} work,
but /dev/sndstat is left out.
bye
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[OT] Echelon keywords (was Re: kernel 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 for sparc)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31 May 2002, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Paul Hedderly wrote: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18pre8ac/include/asm/pgalloc.h:292: structure has no member named `processor' Same here. I'm currently building 2.4.18-pre9. That seems to have gone ok, it's now building OpenAFS modules... On my SS4, it takes about 12 hours to compile the kernel and the OpenAFS module :) But it should be done soon, I'll let you know... Yikes. And I thought my SparcStation LX took long with 4 hours. -- 747 assassination supercomputer Saddam Hussein SEAL Team 6 attack Waco, Texas World Trade Center Honduras [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance] critical toluene AK-47 jihad Soviet [offtopic] Last week I saw an interesting documentary on TV from the UK about the NSA and Echelon, among other things. They touched on this effort to overload it with keywords in email. An expert said that echelon would quickly adapt and not be affected. Do you really believe the US would spend uncountable millions on a surveillance network that could be bogged down with a simple handful of keywords? You're deluding yourself and annoying me, probably others too. I'd prefer it if you removed these keywords before posting to this list. geez, now I feel like such a narc :P - - On the internet, nobody knows you're wearing a tinfoil hat ;) - -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE895hPotavukHNBh4RAle6AJwK6qmlU4EnlgJiO4vaEeoNZuqIMACgs8w4 550H6Hpix8/F1+m+KBPVFm4= =Ir12 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e2fsck: File size limit exceeded
I've just run into the same problem that Hakan had a week ago. I had compiled 2.4.18-rc4 from vger CVS with ext3 instead of ext2. I had added the journal with tune2fs and rebooted. Everything was fine and I shut it down for the night (it's in my bedroom and I can't sleep with the sound offans and disks spinning). I turned it on in the morning and the root fs had reached 20 mounts without checking, so fsck was run. It failed somewhere around 69% in, with the File size limit exceeded error. No amount of fiddling with e2fsck options has changed anything. This is on a plain Sparcstation LX with a 4GB Seagate SCSI disk, not some huge IDE disk. I went back to my previous kernel, 2.4.18-pre8, but that didn't help. Hakan also mentioned something about ext3. Could this problem be because of the journal? please help, bye -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy
Re: Problems with bind9, address already in use
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Christian Jönsson wrote: I get this message in my syslog: Feb 18 16:26:22 fw inetd[629]: ftp/tcp: bind: Address already in use I use, well, try to use, bind9... 'bind' in this case is the bind system call, not the BIND package. Its program is called 'named' anyway. It's saying that the port for FTP is already being used. An FTP daemon is trying to start from inetd, perhaps you've already got one started? Either remove/disable this entry in your /etc/inetd.conf or stop the other daemon from starting. bye -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy
Re: MO-drive
On 5 Feb 2002, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote:
my MO-drive is working now for a while. If I mount the drive, it seems
that is spinning the disk all the time. How can I check wheter it is
spinning all the time and how can I make it not to spin all the time.
It should be mounted, because I use it as a backup directory in our
Network
from the scsitools package, there is the scsi-spin program:
scsi-spin: must specify --up or --down.
usage: scsi-spin {-u,-d} [-nfp] device
-u, --upspin up device.
-d, --down spin down device.
-n, --noact do nothing but check if the device is in use.
-f, --force force spinning up/down even if the device is in use.
-p, --proc use /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab to do the check.
device is one of /dev/sd[a-z], /dev/scd[0-9]* or /dev/sg[0-9]*.
unfortunately, the -S option to hdparm doesn't work on SCSI devices. Is this
feature (auto spin-down after inactivity) only available with IDE, or is it just
that hdparm doesn't support this on SCSI?
hope this helps,
bye
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Re: Why can't boot from network
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Gavinux Li wrote: I installed rarpd, arp, tftpd, bootparamd using rpm today on Redhat 7.1. I created a /etc/ethers which contains: sparc 08:00:20:1a:2b:3c I added a line in /etc/hosts, which is: 192.168.10.12 sparc I started rarpd by rarpd -a The man page says -a tells rarpd to not bind to the interface. What does that achieve? The default args in /etc/init.d/rarpd on my Debian system here are -e -b /var/tftp. The bootdir is probably different on your RH system. Now I boot my sparc IPX and enter serial console, and issue command: ok boot net BUT, I got Boot Device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],c0 File and args: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet I spend a whole day tried to find out what wrong it is, and read lots of documents in the internet, but I can't find out the problem, Have you tried the -v and -d options to rarpd? They could be very useful. bye -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy
Re: Sun Hardware Replacement
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Del Campo, Damian wrote: I was given a Sun Sparc 2 that our office had lying around. I got all prepared to install Debian Linux and have found that the CDRom is missing the drive caddy, hence I can't use it. If you've got access to a network (at work? at home?), it's easier to net-boot the machine (with tftp) rather than hassling with CDs. There's information about it on the debian site (on the Sparc port page) if I remember correctly. Hell, my Sparcstation LX doesn't even _have_ a CDROM drive. bye -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy
Re: Mozilla on sparc
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Eduardo Trapani wrote: Both the stable Mozilla and the one at pandora.debian.org/~robots101/mozilla run incredibly slow on my Sparc Station 4m. Other X applications seem to run OK, but Mozilla just crawls so that it seems it is not working. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. It's sluggish and bloated even on my 750MHz Athlon with 256M RAM and a Matrox G400. Mozilla is a pig. Try Konqeror from the KDE project. I haven't tried much X stuff on my LX (mouse doesn't want to work), but it's certainly much quicker on my Athlon workstation. -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy
