Re: CD Instalation / not block device
Del Campo, Damian wrote: Hi, I changed the CD drive in my SunSparc2 as I thought it may be the cause of my installation woes. Funnily enough, I could boot to it and the base installation was a sinch and was all from the CD. However, after the base installation, when it rebooted and then came to the package installation it couldn't use the CDRom, it wouldn't mount the device saying that it was not a block device. The SS2 (and AFAIK many other Sparcs) needs a CD drive that supports a blocksize of 512 byte. I do not know what blocksize is used by the Linux SCSI CD driver, may be 1024 oder 2048 or something like that, but if you want to boot from CD the Open Boot PROM expects a blocksize of 512 bytes. This is also the reason why bootdisks created with dd of=/dev/fd0 if=image.bin bs=512 work and disks created with ... bs=1024 don't. I'm using a Teac 532S on my SS2 and I don't have any problems... *The CDRom is actaully a burner, this shouldn't matter though should it? Hmm. If it's an old one or if it's a very cheap new one there could be all sorts of problems. Better get something that is known to work. I tested my Teac 532S with Open Boot PROM V2.4.1 and 2.9 ... *Also, in the base installation, when it asks you do change the kernel modules, should I have tried to install generic SCSI support if it could already read my CDRom hard drives. Well I did try but unsuccessfully. Should I not try and install modules at all? If it can read your HD and CD there is no need to install a driver for it. And AFAIK every Sun box has a SCSI controller and the older ones don't have anything else but SCSI so the kernel on the Debian Sparc bootdisk should have SCSI support compiled in. Greetings, Andreas Behnert -- To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password :-) --
RE: CD Instalation / not block device
Thanks to everybody who helped = I finally got my system built. I used the rescue and root floppies to boot the installation process and then selected CDrom as install source and everything worked fine. If I boot the install from CD it does the initial but can't configure or load any packages because it can't mount the CDrom. Don't know why but with the floppy start, I can install SCSI and any other modules whereas with the CDrom boot it won't let me install any modules, hence it can't read the CD later. ?? But worked around it now so thanks all. Damian Del Campo, B.Eng (Comp Sys - Hons) Software Engineer, SAGRN Project Phone 08 8401 7037(Flinders St) Fax 08 8231 1385 E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Andreas Behnert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 October 2001 5:03 To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: CD Instalation / not block device Del Campo, Damian wrote: Hi, I changed the CD drive in my SunSparc2 as I thought it may be the cause of my installation woes. Funnily enough, I could boot to it and the base installation was a sinch and was all from the CD. However, after the base installation, when it rebooted and then came to the package installation it couldn't use the CDRom, it wouldn't mount the device saying that it was not a block device. The SS2 (and AFAIK many other Sparcs) needs a CD drive that supports a blocksize of 512 byte. I do not know what blocksize is used by the Linux SCSI CD driver, may be 1024 oder 2048 or something like that, but if you want to boot from CD the Open Boot PROM expects a blocksize of 512 bytes. This is also the reason why bootdisks created with dd of=/dev/fd0 if=image.bin bs=512 work and disks created with ... bs=1024 don't. I'm using a Teac 532S on my SS2 and I don't have any problems... *The CDRom is actaully a burner, this shouldn't matter though should it? Hmm. If it's an old one or if it's a very cheap new one there could be all sorts of problems. Better get something that is known to work. I tested my Teac 532S with Open Boot PROM V2.4.1 and 2.9 ... *Also, in the base installation, when it asks you do change the kernel modules, should I have tried to install generic SCSI support if it could already read my CDRom hard drives. Well I did try but unsuccessfully. Should I not try and install modules at all? If it can read your HD and CD there is no need to install a driver for it. And AFAIK every Sun box has a SCSI controller and the older ones don't have anything else but SCSI so the kernel on the Debian Sparc bootdisk should have SCSI support compiled in. Greetings, Andreas Behnert -- To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password :-) -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CD Instalation / not block device
Hi, I changed the CD drive in my SunSparc2 as I thought it may be the cause of my installation woes. Funnily enough, I could boot to it and the base installation was a sinch and was all from the CD. However, after the base installation, when it rebooted and then came to the package installation it couldn't use the CDRom, it wouldn't mount the device saying that it was not a block device. What does this mean ?? I mean, it worked well enough to install the base system off of. Is the problem the CD, CDdrive or the system (apt/installed base)? *The CDRom is actaully a burner, this shouldn't matter though should it? *How long would it take if I used the http over a serial line (56k modem)? *Also, in the base installation, when it asks you do change the kernel modules, should I have tried to install generic SCSI support if it could already read my CDRom hard drives. Well I did try but unsuccessfully. Should I not try and install modules at all? *What is the keymap and why would you want to load one. - I also presume that I want the sun keymap but then which one would I choose? Sorry so many questions thanks in advance. Damian Del Campo, B.Eng (Comp Sys - Hons) Software Engineer, SAGRN Project Phone 08 8401 7037(Flinders St) Fax 08 8231 1385 E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED]
