Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-05 Thread Thomas Duffy
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 21:39, Craig Ian Dewick wrote: > Why shouldn't the swap be in partition 1? That's where Sun's format seems we have an off by one error. linux thinks the first partition is 1, where sun says it is zero. i think we are on the same page. the first partition on the disk *cann

Re: Installation of Woody crashes on Ultra 1

2001-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:07:34PM +0200, Moritz Bunkus wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I have to problems with my > 20 Ultra1 I have to set up. THis is a known problem and new boot disks are coming very soon. I'll post on this list when they are ready (today or tomorrow). -- .--===-=-=

Installation of Woody crashes on Ultra 1

2001-10-05 Thread Moritz Bunkus
Hi everybody. I have to problems with my > 20 Ultra1 I have to set up. Half of the machines still have an older OpenBoot-version (v3.5). On these machines I can't get the kernel to boot (I boot via TFTP). After unpacking of the image and the line "Remapping kernel" nothing happens anymore. The ot

Re: Starting to get peeved !!

2001-10-05 Thread Loic Jaouen
Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > I get through the install but can't make the system bootable from the hard > > disk. > > As explained, could be that prom boot try to boot from the disk where > you are not using silo. Is your sda1 at SCSI target 3? I can't remember the details but I know that from the s

Re: Starting to get peeved !!

2001-10-05 Thread Rutger Noot
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:13:56PM +1000, Del Campo, Damian wrote: > Hi, I'm still struggling to install Debian to my Sparc2 from floppies. > I have 2x 1.3Gb and 1x 440Mb disks > I partition them all as Sun Disk Label and then delete partition 1 & 2 to > create the ones I want. The end result (wit

Re: Starting to get peeved !!

2001-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:13:56PM +1000, Del Campo, Damian wrote: > Hi, I'm still struggling to install Debian to my Sparc2 from floppies. > I have 2x 1.3Gb and 1x 440Mb disks > I partition them all as Sun Disk Label and then delete partition 1 & 2 to > create the ones I want. The end result (with

Re: Starting to get peeved !!

2001-10-05 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Del Campo, Damian In chel di` si favelave... > I get through the install but can't make the system bootable from the hard > disk. As explained, could be that prom boot try to boot from the disk where you are not using silo. You can change the default boot device in prom, or say to silo

Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-05 Thread Gabor Zoltan Csejtey
Hi, I have a following setup for Linux and Solaris: Linux disk: fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 6779 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdb1 0 2350 1184400 83

Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-05 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> On Oct 05, Craig Ian Dewick illuminated with a virtual scribe : > Why shouldn't the swap be in partition 1? That's where Sun's format > program defaults to placing the swap partition. With a Solaris or NetBSD > installation, I always set it up this way: > doesn't have to be. Leftover legacy f

Re: Starting to get peeved !!

2001-10-05 Thread Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz
Quoting "Del Campo, Damian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, I'm still struggling to install Debian to my Sparc2 from floppies. > I have 2x 1.3Gb and 1x 440Mb disks > I partition them all as Sun Disk Label and then delete partition 1 & 2 > to > create the ones I want. The end result (with approx sizes)

Re: Starting to get peeved !!

2001-10-05 Thread Fabbione
Hi Damian, you should check in the eprom configuration which is the default-bootdevice. you can do that pressing stop+a, n (that stands for new command) and then printenv. To change the default in order to match your config use the command set-env with the appropriate parameter. On my confi