Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-27 Thread Ari Heitner
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: > > We have got a certain promotion offer which includes: > > 2 x 400MHz UltraSPARC-II CPUs, 2MB E-cache > 2048MB memory > 4 x 36GB 1RPM UltraSCSI disk drive (hotswap) > Sun StorEdge DVD-ROM 10 drive > 2 x 360 Watt Power supplies sounds li

Re: Probelms Installing on SS10

2000-11-27 Thread Tad Bilby
The root filesys / and I believe /boot need to be under the 1GB area of the hard disk. Are you dual booting? The same limitation used to apply on old intel boxes with pre 2.0 kernels. Tad "Bihari, Steve" wrote: Hi all.  I am having troubles installing Debian 2.2.0 on a Sparc 10.  On the reboot af

2.2.20-2000-11-27 boot-floppies to test for upcoming 2.2r2 release

2000-11-27 Thread Ben Collins
Please test these new boot-floppies for the next revision of potato release. They are based on 2.2.18pre21 kernels. Barring any problems, they will go into incoming tonight or tomorrow. http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ Ben -- ---===-=-==-=-

Re: Question about a Sony MFD-17W-P1 floppy disk drive.

2000-11-27 Thread Matthew Haas
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > > Perhaps I didn't phrase the question right. How do I get the floppy to > work on a PC? I know of the 'eject' and 'floppycontrol'. Any comments? > I heard from somewhere that Sun machines use the alternate ID (ie B: instead of A:--- they don't use t

nfs mount problem

2000-11-27 Thread Cristian Constantin
Hi! after an upgrade to woody i cannot mount nfs exported filesystems... uname -a Linux 2.2.16 #1 Fri Jun 23 18:57:35 CEST 2000 sparc64 unknown (i have also tried with 2.2.1 and 2.2.17) ii mount 2.10p-1.0 Tools for mounting and manipulating filesyst ii libc6 2.1.97-1

Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'm new on Debian Sparc and have a question about hardware we have to decide for in a limited time frame (sorry for the urgent tag). We have got a certain promotion offer which includes: 2 x 400MHz UltraSPARC-II CPUs, 2MB E-cache 2048MB memory 4 x 36GB 1RPM UltraSCSI disk drive