where is kernel src and after install problems?

2000-01-11 Thread andrea . martano
Hi all, I've seen kernel 2.2.14 header .deb pkg in Ben Collins' location. where is, if already available kernel 2.2.14 src .deb pkg? I need it to build a smp kernel on SS10 dual 390z50 CPU system. Despite my former email i found some problems after having installed from diskette: trying to use

ANN: new boot disks to test

2000-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
Ok, at http://xia01.kachinatech.com/~buildd/sparc-2.2.14-potato-boot/current you will find the latest set of boot disks. Changes: * The sun4c kernel now has BOOTP/RARP/NFSROOT in the kernel. The sparc and sun4u disks have RARP/NFSROOT support. * Lots of general boot-floppies changes *

Re: ANN: new boot disks to test

2000-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
Changes: * The sun4c kernel now has BOOTP/RARP/NFSROOT in the kernel. The sparc and sun4u disks have RARP/NFSROOT support. * Lots of general boot-floppies changes * The sun4c a.out image is now padded correctly. * Lots of sparc related documentation changes in the doc stuff.

my scsi hard disk doesn't work with my cdrom

2000-01-11 Thread John Davis
Hello I need help installing a new scsi hard disk in an old sparcstation 5. For some reason, I can not get the drive to work properly with the existing cdrom in the sparcstation. Here are the facts: The sparcstation had an older, smaller, slower scsi hard disk which worked fine with the cdrom.

WARNING: the latest boot floppies are broken

2000-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
This is in reference to the boot floppies I just posted about earlier today. a) busybox's init seems to be broken. If you switch to vt 2 (ALT+F2) you can hit enter and manually start `dbootstrap' b) the filename selection for drivers.tgz and rescue.bin when installing those from mounted or nfs

Re: ANN: initial sparc potato boot floppies ready for testing

2000-01-11 Thread Eric Delaunay
J. S. Connell wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Eric Delaunay wrote: On this topic, do you know about a way of identifying the type of console connected to the serial line ? Is there an escape sequence that returns vt100 or the like ? [...] I'd tend to say that assuming VT100 until

Re: WARNING: the latest boot floppies are broken

2000-01-11 Thread Eric Delaunay
Ben Collins wrote: This is in reference to the boot floppies I just posted about earlier today. a) busybox's init seems to be broken. If you switch to vt 2 (ALT+F2) you can hit enter and manually start `dbootstrap' b) the filename selection for drivers.tgz and rescue.bin when installing

Re: WARNING: the latest boot floppies are broken

2000-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:34:52PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: Ben Collins wrote: This is in reference to the boot floppies I just posted about earlier today. a) busybox's init seems to be broken. If you switch to vt 2 (ALT+F2) you can hit enter and manually start `dbootstrap' b)

Re: WARNING: the latest boot floppies are broken

2000-01-11 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote: a) busybox's init seems to be broken. If you switch to vt 2 (ALT+F2) you can hit enter and manually start `dbootstrap' Dbootstrap seems to start just fine on my SparcStation SLC. b) the filename selection for drivers.tgz and rescue.bin when