Re: tftp install on IPX
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 04:45:52PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Irvin Probst wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 21:55, Niall Parker wrote: Unfortunately the system hangs after the Booting Linux ... prompt, no further messages. IPX are sun4c, so you should read what I wrote about Debian on SS2 (http://www.irvinig.org/ss2.html). Bye Thanks for the pointer ... after some more fiddling I had gotten the linux-a.out kernel booting with the root supposedly via NFS, but I lacked the appropriate OpenProm command line (I assumed the kernel could figure out the NFS stuff via DHCP, but that wasn't the case) In the mean time though, after being forced to rely on my floppy, I gave it another vacuum and managed to boot the system that way ... ;-) Now that I have it installed though it seems to need a major performance tuneup ... I can't believe I once used one of these machines as my daily workstation ! (was SunOS that much quicker ?) Dude. Expectations. Think about how much code [crap?] has been added to OSes and apps since them daze. Why do you think 16MB was somewhat reasonable back then? Try to think back about a couple of things: 10BT networking seemed *sweet* as opposed to 'hey -- the network is down!'; 5MB/sec external vacuums ~:^) were awesome because you could add a huge 500MB disk -- man, space for all the source for several different SunOS releasesa; one did not run cscope unless you *absolutely had to*. a
Re: tftp install on IPX
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 21:55, Niall Parker wrote: Unfortunately the system hangs after the Booting Linux ... prompt, no further messages. IPX are sun4c, so you should read what I wrote about Debian on SS2 (http://www.irvinig.org/ss2.html). Bye -- Irvin Probst There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
Re: tftp install on IPX
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Irvin Probst wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 21:55, Niall Parker wrote: Unfortunately the system hangs after the Booting Linux ... prompt, no further messages. IPX are sun4c, so you should read what I wrote about Debian on SS2 (http://www.irvinig.org/ss2.html). Bye Thanks for the pointer ... after some more fiddling I had gotten the linux-a.out kernel booting with the root supposedly via NFS, but I lacked the appropriate OpenProm command line (I assumed the kernel could figure out the NFS stuff via DHCP, but that wasn't the case) In the mean time though, after being forced to rely on my floppy, I gave it another vacuum and managed to boot the system that way ... ;-) Now that I have it installed though it seems to need a major performance tuneup ... I can't believe I once used one of these machines as my daily workstation ! (was SunOS that much quicker ?) l8r ... ... Niall
tftp install on IPX
I have an IPX which I have previously had RH 6.0 running on and wanted to try Debian, so I downloaded the latest tftpboot.img file and gave it a try. After some fiddling with my server, I got rarp and tftp working, the IPX downloads the image OK. Unfortunately the system hangs after the Booting Linux ... prompt, no further messages. I check the image by downloading it again, it seems fine. The system originally had 20 MB (16 in slot 0, 4 in slot 1) so I moved the 4 to slot 2 as per the recommendations in the install manual, no difference, also tried it with just the 16 in slot 0. Default video on the main board, completely stock system (I think) The instructions say 12 MB is the minimum required and I have 16 at least, does the latest image require more memory than documented ? Any suggestions appreciated, thanks. ... Niall
