Re: problems with nfs and swap

1998-11-30 Thread Alexander Schulz
According to Alexander Schulz: > it also oopses without the patch, so it is probably some other problem. > Anyone knowing this? It works with 2.0.30. Perhaps someone with a newer installation should test the patch, for my clib and stuff is quite old. Other than that, I have no idea at the moment.

Re: problems with nfs and swap

1998-11-30 Thread Alexander Schulz
According to Alexander Schulz: > Perhaps I am doing something wrong here, or it is the experimental > audio-support? I did not have those Problems with the 2.0.30 > I will try to recompile the 2.0.35 without the patch and see if that works > better with audio. it also oopses without the patch, so

problems with nfs and swap

1998-11-30 Thread Alexander Schulz
Hello there are some problems with the patch, I think. First, I could not load the audio module, but later this worked without me doing anything diffrent. It seems to have some trouble swapping out things as I need memory for kmalloc. It just gave me an oops as I tried to cat something to the audi

Re: The time has come (part II) ...

1998-11-30 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 1:25 pm -0500 "Steve Dunham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jules Bean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> --On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 10:08 pm +0100 "Eric Delaunay" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > About kernel, I will release the next bootdisks with 2.0.35. Is it enough

swap-nfs patch

1998-11-30 Thread Alexander Schulz
Hello, I found the patch on my harddisk. It was a patch against 2.0.21 which I am using with a 2.0.30 kernel for half a year now. I tried to apply it to a 2.0.35-sparc kernel, which worked partly. I changed 2 hunks that where not found in the new kernel (they just changed some indentation and thin

Re: boot disks progress... complement

1998-11-30 Thread Alexander Schulz
According to Eric Delaunay: > > Well, nfsroot installation is working :-)) Thank yo very much! > PPS: actually there is no way to enable swap on diskless workstation. I >remember I heard a long time ago about swap-on-nfs patch for linux. Is it >still available somewhere ? Could it be

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:40:41AM +, James Troup wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ben Collins writes: > > > Some one said recently they would post a list of the packages that > > > wouldn't auto compile for sparc from slink. Is this still going to be > > > posted, I'd like to help g

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:31:35AM +, Jules Bean wrote: > --On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 7:04 pm -0500 "Ben Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:01:26PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> I would like to see wanna-build and its friends managing this process > >

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:54:21PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Some one said recently they would post a list of the packages that > wouldn't auto compile for sparc from slink. Is this still going to be > posted, I'd like to help getting these things compiled. I said I'll post one and I'll do soon.

Re: libc6

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:20:44AM +0100, Stephan Wiehr wrote: > Hello! > > Since I'm quite new to Debian on Sparc here's a question: > > after installing libc6 2.0.95-980825 on a Sparc 1 (yes, sun4c) I keep > getting 'Unimplemented SPARC system call' 103 and 119 > I'm just wondering if this is k

Re: Problem with sendmail 8.9.1-4 or libc6 2.0.100-2.1?

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 05:09:46PM -0800, Paul Vojta wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:59:09 -0500 (EST), > "J. S. Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ldd reports: > > > > libdb.so.3 => /lib/libdb.so.3 (0x5002c000) > > libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x50084000) > > libnsl.so.1

Re: boot disks progress... and problem :-(

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:44:03AM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: > PS: the kernel in kernel-image-2.1.125 is not compiled with NFSROOT, BOOTP & >RARP options as the 2.0.35 did. Theses options are required for diskless >workstations & low memory installation (where the root image cannot fit

Re: The time has come (part II) ...

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 10:04:12AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > which kernel will we use as standard kernel ? > > 2.0.35 is pretty stable for me but it's not completely stable because the > > virtual consoles die sometimes. 2.1.125 is much better but it has got the > > X logout crash probl

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread James Troup
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, yes 1.4.0.31 is the latest slink. I just noticed our problem is > the convergence of slink binary-sparc packages and potato binary-all > packages (dpkg-dev is 1.4.1 in potato/main/binary-sparc/base). This > should really be resolved before we can real

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread James Troup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Collins writes: > > Some one said recently they would post a list of the packages that > > wouldn't auto compile for sparc from slink. Is this still going to be > > posted, I'd like to help getting these things compiled. > > I would like to see wanna-build and it

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:31:35AM +, Jules Bean wrote: > > This was my point, of course. That's why we need a freeze. How do we go about getting a freeze? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian G

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 7:04 pm -0500 "Ben Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:01:26PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I would like to see wanna-build and its friends managing this process >> (since it produces such a list, facilitates autocompiles of packages >

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:01:26PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would like to see wanna-build and its friends managing this process > (since it produces such a list, facilitates autocompiles of packages > that do compile, e.g. those out of date, allows builders to submit > reasons why it