Sun4M booting!
To the Great Penguin in the sky, or Pumpkin? I have purchased what is apparently the "potato" release for sparc. I acquired two Sparc600LM servers ($27 for the pair!) which are at this time runnung Sunos 4.1.3, which I am (or was, in the past) very familiar. I very much want to install the debian release, but it appears that the 4M architechure (or more probably the boot program) will simply not load onto the system. What I am used to with Sparc and HPUX, is an install boot program loading into memory, asking how you wish to procede, and then loading the system disks, etc. I have tried a number of scenarios, and some appeared to be successful, that is, you could see the the penguin in the upper left, see all the linux device names instead of Sunos ones. Then, after the initial boot, init appears to be looking, or not know where to look for rc files and the like, instead of loading the new release. I realize the instructions say that this is simply solved by going to floppies, well, this system has no floppy drive, just a CD and and ancient 150MB scsi tape reader. If you have that monkey that can install this, due to its utter simplicity to install, please have him contact me. I don't have what I typed in front of me, but it was along these lines: b cdrom ( this was too easy ..., and was useless.) b cdrom linux root=/dev/sda1 cfstype=sun ( This, or something similar, gets me the boot, and then:) Warning: Unable to open init console: init ( After we boot and its looking very good, it bails ) Terry Dabbs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jigdo checksum error
Hi, I'm trying out jigdo to retrieve a Debian 3.0r0 CD image set, and after quite a long download, I get a checksum error. Is there any way to fix this short of starting the whole process from scratch? (I really hope so). I used http.us.debian.org to get the .jigdo file, and mirrors.kernel.org as the "Debian Mirror" site. Both are listed as "Push-Primary" mirrors on the Debian site ( http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-full ). I originally tried using http.us.debian.org for both, but this seemed to be very slow (perhaps this mirror restricts bandwidth or is simply very busy?). I also tried using mirrors.kernel.org for both, but it doesn't seem to have the jigdo files (or not in the same place anyway). I have downloaded other CD ISO images through my connection before, and they don't take this long, so the claim that jigdo is "faster" doesn't seem to hold true (though I can see that it might be a big help to the servers, which is sufficient justification for it). Basically, I'd like to ask if I'm doing this right -- is it okay (preferred? discouraged?) to use two different push-primary mirrors like this? Also, is the slow download simply to be expected, or the result of some error I'm making. Why would I get a bad checksum? Simply corrupted files, or is there a chance that I'm somehow getting the *wrong* files? Thanks for any advice you might be able to offer, Terry -- -- Terry Hancock Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
permission
I'm window's converting to debian/linux. I just installed debian 2.2.19. I can list directories. But am not allowed to look into any files or config. I am returned "Permission denied" in most every file entery. When trying to look at "xf86config" I am receiving and err 111 message. I am searching books and manuals on line,but have not found anything addressing these matters yet. HELP Thank You,, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
