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installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Floppy images build on (20050323) from http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/2005-03-23/sparc32/floppy/ uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.27-2-sparc32 #1 Tue Feb 15 00:11:41 PST 2005 sparc unknown Date: 2005-03-24 14:24 CET (GMT+1) Method: I booted from the floppy images, into expret mode I needed to speciefy, root=/dev/fd0 when also the drivers were loaded the rest is done throug LAN (NATted) everything is downloaded from http://ftp.surfnet.nl using the testing distribution Machine: Got the machine from someone, haven't got any documentation or clue what what is I just love to try to get a good running Linux on it althoug I am not a Linux "goeroe", I just know my way around google and some linux basics (with x86) Here is a list of what I do know: Sun SparcStation5 (SS5 / sun4m?) with 170 MHz 128 MB of ram Floppy Drive 2 internal SCSI drives SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sda) 1.1 GB QUANTUM FB1080J SUN1.05 SCSI1 (0,3,0) (sdb) 2.2 GB IBM DCAS32160 SUN2.1G 1 extrnal UltraSCSI drive SCSI2 (0,6,0) (sbc) 18.1 GB SEAGATE ST318404L SUN18G (in a Sun UltraSCSI casing) Extrenal SCSI is connected to a SBUS card which also has a 10/100Mbit lan port (HAPPYMEAL) Processor: SS5 (sun4m) Memory: 128 MB Root Device: SCSI Root Size/partition table: Partition Table made with installer: sda, one partition ext3 used as / (root) sdb, one partition ext3 used as /home sdc, three partitions #1 8 GB used as /usr #2 512 MB used as swap #4 9.6 GB used as /var Output of lspci and lspci -n: no lspci available on boot disks Modules (auto) loaded: sunlance (for onbaord LAN) sunhme (for SBUS HappyMeal LAN card) scsi_mod esp (for Sun Microsystems ESP SCSI) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [E] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [] No CD Drives Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [] Already done previously (with installer) Create file systems: [] Already done previously (with installer) Mount partitions: [E] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [E] Comments/Problems: Initial boot doesn't work propperly need to do root=/dev/fd0 otherwise no boot possible Mounting can't be done throug the installe menu's It always wan't to format the harddrive, or am I doning something wrong here? got some errors while booting, I thinks this is my own fault, as I didn't format the disks, but just did a rm * -r afther mounting and before doing a base installation Error1: Warning: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as soon as possible Error2: error while loading shared libraries: libdiscover.so.1: cannot open object file: No such file or directory Error3: can't create /var/run/dhclient.eth0.leases: No such file or directory exiting. Faild to bring up eth0. Error4: /etc/init.d/rcS: line 1: cut: command not found /etc/init.d/rcS: line 29: [: =: unary operator expected /etc/init.d/rsC: line 24: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory Error5: Initialising random number generator... urandom start: failed: at the end I get: Starting system log deamon: syslogd. but nothing happens for about 5 minutes so I stopped the computer. |