Re: Sparc problem - any answers???

1999-07-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 03:24:55PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > I said earlier in the week: > > >> I've just started doing a new set of official sparc images on > >> cdimage.debian.org and things are failing all over the place. I've checked > >> up and the binary-sparc directories are full of

creating a tftpboot kernel/compiling a kernel for ultra 5

1999-07-01 Thread Martin Bruns
Hallo, I installed Debian/Sparc on an ultra 5. Since I want to use the solaris-emulation I have to recompile the kernel this solris-emul on. The stock slink kernel-image is lacking this. Compiling a kernel failed with this: atyfb.c: In function `atyfb_ioctl': atyfb.c:2213: `FBTYPE_PCI_GENERIC' un

Re: creating a tftpboot kernel/compiling a kernel for ultra 5

1999-07-01 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
Hi... > Kernel-source 2.2.9 or 2.2.10. I guess it compiles sparc and not sparc64 > but how to change this. No clue about this :-( Maybe somebody can help...? > I also tried to create a tftpboot from the potato kernel-image but I'm not > able to make it ;-(. Your Sun can only boot from an A

Re: Sparc problem - any answers???

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Dunham
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I said earlier in the week: > > >> I've just started doing a new set of official sparc images on > >> cdimage.debian.org and things are failing all over the place. I've checked > >> up and the binary-sparc directories are full of sym-links to sid. Can

What must I do?

1999-07-01 Thread chris
Hi, What must I do to get help??? Over the past months I have posted the following question to this group; I have even emailed prominant 'debians' in this group yet not a word of help from any one! So here goes again: Please send me a 'handshake' so I know this gets to the list. I am no

Re: What must I do?

1999-07-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:48:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running the last stable release of slink, 2.0.35 kernel > on a Sun IPX Sparc. It is wonderful As is apt which, BTW, > works flawlessly and is a huge improvement over the original > dselect of earlier releases. In fac

Re: creating a tftpboot kernel/compiling a kernel for ultra 5

1999-07-01 Thread Eric Delaunay
Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: > Your Sun can only boot from an A.OUT image- however, the kernel image is > ELF binary format. (Also, this will be the format of every kernel you > compile youself.) You may "check" this (in a rather sloppy way) by > issuing a > file > Result will be "ELF binary". >

Re: SPARC kernel questions

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A couple of questions appeared in my mind while upgrading to 2.2.10: > (1) This business of having to install /etc/init.d/devpts.sh from > potato's libc6 to make a recent 2.2.x kernel work if > CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS is selected. It's not too hard to do by hand, but > it d

Re: continuing setserial problems

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Dunham
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've managed to get setserial 2.15-4 to compile (see the important bug > I filed with a patch), however, I get the following errors when > running it... > # setserial /dev/ttyS0 > sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(541e) arg(ec20) > Cannot get

Re: continuing setserial problems

1999-07-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
>I always assumed it wasn't needed (and disabled it). The error >message that you included above will only come from the sparc64 >kernel. (It is from the code in >arch/sparc64/kernel/{ioctl,sys_sparc32}.c which translates the >arguments of 32-bit system calls into 64-bit system calls.) Is it th

Sparc problem - any answers???

1999-07-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
I said earlier in the week: >> I've just started doing a new set of official sparc images on >> cdimage.debian.org and things are failing all over the place. I've checked >> up and the binary-sparc directories are full of sym-links to sid. Can >> somebody please explain this? At the moment this m