error in installer

I recently installed a potato from scratch. My partition setup was to have a small /boot and a larger /, plus a swap. Installation went just fine, and everything installed. I was asked to make the disk bootable, which I said yes to. When rebooting, it couldn't find the kernel. After booting the

cross-compiler update

(can't sleep. Clowns will eat me) Need to compile and install binutils-sparc (is not built from the binutils package for some reason unknown to me right now). Then install dpkg-cross, and import ldso, libc6, and libc6-dev debs from Sparc. Then symlink /usr/local/sparc-linux/[include|lib] into

VNC on SPARC?

Hi! I am trying to get VNC working on SPARC Debian potato and I can't. I installed only vncserver and dependent apps and libs. I don't want to install and x-server on this machine. VNC starts and then dies before I am able to connect to it. Nothing appears in the vnc logs and syslog. I used VNC

Re: apt slink-potato using cds

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:16:48PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: Still a problem (apt-get won't recognize when right cd is in drive). I get this effect if I have mirrors listed as http sources as well as cdrom source listed in /etc/apt/sources.list The solution I've found is to temporarily

kde on sparc??

hi! any idea why: apt-get install task-kde Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet

Re: kde on sparc??

the kde packages for sparc woody are a bit behind...I just finished uploading the last piece so it should be installable after the next dinstall runs. If you still have the problem in a couple days let me know. Ivan On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 12:58:05PM +0100, Cristian Constantin wrote: hi!

Re: cross-compiler update

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:59:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (can't sleep. Clowns will eat me) Need to compile and install binutils-sparc (is not built from the binutils package for some reason unknown to me right now). Then install dpkg-cross, and import ldso, libc6, and libc6-dev

dependency problem

Hi there, after updating the list of available packages I have encountered the following dependency problem: dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 does not appear to be available and in fact I didn't find that package. I'm running potato with the following source

Re: VNC on SPARC?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:20:27PM +0900, Julian Stoev wrote: Hi! I am trying to get VNC working on SPARC Debian potato and I can't. I installed only vncserver and dependent apps and libs. I don't want to install and x-server on this machine. How can you run VNC server on a machine with no X

Re: easy question (I believe)

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 12:32:15PM +0100, Maliar, Gilles wrote: I'm new user of Debian (sparc i386) and I don't know how to configure the hadrware for the network (here, it is on i386... before serious things with my ultrasparc station). I know ifconfig, but any time I want ti use it, it

Re: kde on sparc??

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:04:22AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: the kde packages for sparc woody are a bit behind...I just finished uploading the last piece so it should be installable after the next dinstall runs. Sorry about that. The buildd is starting back up now, so it should keep up

Re: dependency problem

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:52:32PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote: Hi there, after updating the list of available packages I have encountered the following dependency problem: dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 does not appear to be available and in fact I

gtk/glib on sparc is broken

Is it a known problem that I can't install libgtk1.2-dev and libglib1.2-dev on sparc potato? The -dev package depends on version 1.2.7-2 of libgtk1.2, but only version 1.2.8-1 is available, which makes it completely impossible to compile any gnome app including the ssh security fix I'm trying to

X!

Hello all! I am using an Ultra5 with woody installed on it... Lately, when the last update installed Xfree 4.0.1, i wasn't able to start again the X server. The problem should be, as they say at Xfree.org, in mouse protocol config. Actually i have this configuration: Section InputDevice

Sun-4 ??

Hello, From the FAQ at www.ultralinux.org: QUOTE - 12. What about the Sun4 machines ? (Such as 4/330) There are quite a few differences with the Sun4 machines vs. the Sun4cdmu types, such as MMU, Ethernet chip, disk controller and graphics cards. In

Re: gtk/glib on sparc is broken

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:48:34PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Is it a known problem that I can't install libgtk1.2-dev and libglib1.2-dev on sparc potato? The -dev package depends on version 1.2.7-2 of libgtk1.2, but only version 1.2.8-1 is available, which makes it completely impossible

X 4.0.1

Could someone help me with the settings in XF86Config-4 for a type4 keyboard and mouse? Cant seem to find the right protocal for the mouse and the keyboard is going nuts. -- http://www.landofbile.com AIM: iambile irc: [bile] in #bloodlustsoftware, #tardwagon email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X 4.0.1

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:52:32PM -0500, Antonio Musumeci wrote: Could someone help me with the settings in XF86Config-4 for a type4 keyboard and mouse? Cant seem to find the right protocal for the mouse and the keyboard is going nuts. The mouse protocol is BUS. I forget the settings I

Sparc cross-compiler update

Looks like my FDD is bad. I test it in prom (test floppy) and it reports it's unable to read the first sector. So, I need to learn how to build or edit a tftpboot image.