Re: [sun]debian
For what (little) it's worth, when I came across a pair of E4500s last year, I compared Aurora with debian. I had trouble with both installations, but the debian list was extremely helpful and supportive. (Thanks all!) The Aurora list never responded. To date, I still have not accomplished a successful installation of Aurora, but both E4500s are running debian beautifully!!! (Just wish I could pay the electric bill!) Wenton Chris Andrew wrote: All, I prefer GNU/debian solutins, but Aurora may be of interest to RPM lovers: http://auroralinux.org/ This may be an anti-debian comment, but GPL is GPL (well V.2 is :-) ). Cheers, Chris. On 04/04/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2007-03-23 13:24:23, schrieb Jim: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:59:27AM +0100, Eric Rapilly wrote: > > > hello, I have problems to install debian on my SUN Ultra 1. > > Hi Eric, > > I think this was your first mistake: > > > I downloaded on My fedora the images to install through the net, > > Fedora and Debian are different distributions of Linux, so if you want > to install Debian then Fedora images are no use. Ehm, I thin HE HAS ad Fedora workstation and downloaded the Debian- CD-Images and burned it... and was not able to boot the Debian-CD-Images. AFAIK does RedHat not support SPARC. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi 0033/6/6192519367100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot without Keyboard/mouse
Greetings, all, Just FYI, this works just fine on the E4500s as well. There are two serial ports, so you have to be sure to get port A, but other than that, works great. Full agreement with Bruce, doing the install via the serial port is actually not possible (MUST use a second virtual terminal to 'modprobe esp.o'), so I used the keyboard/mouse/monitor for the install, but they are not used under normal conditions. Wenton L. Davis Bruce O'Neel wrote: Yes, that's completely true and that's how I run all of mine. OTOH, it's a bit hard to do the install but I guess the orig poster can just put the keyboard and display on for the install and then remove them. It's handy to have a null modem cable sitting around if something goes wrong though. It solves the "I turned it on 10 mins ago and it still doesn't respond to ping" problem... cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:58:08PM +0200, Daniel Liikamaa wrote: You can boot the machine without keyboard/mouse even if you don't connect a null modem cable to the serial port. You just won't have a hardware console, that's all. This has worked with my Ultra10 and my SB100, which I have run as firewalls in my closet. :) Daniel On tis, 2006-08-22 at 18:44 +, Bruce O'Neel wrote: Yes, no problem. Hook a null modem cable to the serial port on the back (it's the one labeled A if there is more than one, I don't have a 5) and it should work. This is called a serial console in the Sun world and a google search on that will get you loads of info. cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote: Hello world, i've this problem. At home i've 2 ultra Sparc 5 but ONLY ONE keyboard and sunmouse;one of this machine is my Firewall/router. Well,is it possible to start the boot without keyboard/mouse?with a normal PC i386 i search the command into the BIOSbut with Solaris OpenBoot??? Thanks a lot.. -- Andrea Modesto Rossi Services Ariadne Tel. +39 0382-408911 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SPARC Ultra Creator 30 release install hassles - v30 r5
Phil Grimshaw wrote: The long & the short of it - does not matter what I do, I cannot install the complete Debian release from the v30r5 CD's I have built. (snip) Clearly I am missing something core to the SPARC-specific port. As I said - CD's all are ok from a read point of view. As you would expect, the apt-cdrom add command permits me to feed all 6 CD's & all is OK reading/indexing the CD's. The install I am talking about is a CD-based install beyond the initial boot and base system - ie the complete 'all bells & whistles' install. I am hardly qualified to be the answer here, being new to the debian realm, but for what very little value. I recently installed 3.1r2 on my E4500, and had to dig a little to find this, but running dselect seems to be the key to all the 'bells and whistles.' BUT (big big but) really read the information on using it. Once you get it figured out, it's really nice and exceptionally well-done. (Thanks go to ) It's a little bumpy when gettting used to it, though, as there are a few things I would recommend in *minor* changes. I am only otherwise familiar with RPMs ansd TGZs, and dselect seems (IMHO) superior to both. The apt-cdrom program is paramount before using dselect, though! Wenton L. Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Just a simple install problem?
Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2006, Hamish Greig wrote: On Sunday 28 May 2006 13:44, Wenton L. Davis wrote: Trying to install on an E4500, the install boots from the CD, sterts running, tries to detect the CDROM using several different IDE drivers, but this system is purely SCSI. I get stuck in this rescan for CDROM? thing. Out of ideas and very frustrated. Wenton L. Davis ALt F2; hit enter; modprobe esp As long as esp is the driver on the 4500 that is. It is the driver on my e3000, I had to use the same method to install. Hamish If the machines have esp SCSI controllers, I'd appreciate if you could test the daily etch installer builds, from www.d.o/devel/debian-installer. The installer have been fixed up to detect esp properly, so if it does not work for some reason, I'm sure d-i team would appreciate a report. Best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC Works beautifully! I did go ahead and modprobe sd_mod and sr_mod, just to be sure. Next problems, I can't get X11 to configure, mostly because I can't figure out who to scan the bus for the graphics card ID. (It's not a PCI bus.) And, I'm not sure now to check if the mouse has a driver loaded. I can look in /proc/devices, and I find a line: "13 input" which I expect to handle the mouse right? Wenton L. Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just a simple install problem?
Trying to install on an E4500, the install boots from the CD, sterts running, tries to detect the CDROM using several different IDE drivers, but this system is purely SCSI. I get stuck in this rescan for CDROM? thing. Out of ideas and very frustrated. Wenton L. Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
