Re: help needed booting Ultra-5

2001-10-25 Thread keith
Hi Paul: The CD's in Ultra-5's cannot read CD-RW media. However, they can read CD-R's just fine, as I found out after some gnashing of teeth. So, burn a CD-R, and you should be in good shape -- it worked for me. Cheers, Keith On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:31:43PM -0600, paul cannon wrote: > I've

help needed booting Ultra-5

2001-10-25 Thread paul cannon
I've got an "Ultra 5" Sparc machines here on which I am going to install Debian. Unfortunately, I can't seem to make it boot to any installation media. The installation notes for Sparc imply that sun4u's don't support booting to the floppy, so that would explain my failures there, but I downloaded

kb problem

2001-10-25 Thread Nath
I'm trying to find a keymap for type6 keyboards, as alt doesn't work with type5 keymap... Does anyone where to find it ? Thanks, Nathanaƫl -- mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

module selection during installation.

2001-10-25 Thread Nath
Hello all, During installation 2.2r3 on an ultra10, I can't select a module to load, it never works, as if the hardware wasn't there... It's not a problem, as the modules are well installed after installation process is over, but I'm just asking me if it's a known bug or if I'm the only one getti

More 2.4.12 compile errors on Sparc32

2001-10-25 Thread Kiraly Andras
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Peter Keel wrote: > Ok. Got it. 2.4.13-pre3, rsync'ed from the cvs at http://vger.samba.org/ > WORKS. On a Sparc10: Hm, I try to compile kernel 2.4.13 and the kernel from vger. Both compile till the end, then following error is reported: objdump -x vmlinux.o | ./btfixupprep

Re: 2.4.12 compile errors on Sparc32

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Keel
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:41:22AM -0400, Joe Stevens wrote: > Yea, the recent CVS versions should work, I only keep that 2.4.8 up there > because its 'stable' (I use it on a number of production machines, uptimes > of more than a month...) Ok. Got it. 2.4.13-pre3, rsync'ed from the cvs at http://

Re: asynchronus device / not block device

2001-10-25 Thread Andrew Sharp
"Del Campo, Damian" wrote: > > I installed debian potato to a SS2 off of a CDrom. When the installation > reboots and starts the package installation, it can't mount the CDrom. > > It says that the CDrom is "not a block device". What does this mean? > > Figuring that maybe my CD rom is problem,

Re: SPARCstation LX boot problem

2001-10-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:34:31AM -0500, Corey Kovacs wrote: > Well I figured out what the problem with the switch I have was, bad cable. Now > I can get to the outside world (and other machines on the switch itself) so I > should > be able to proceed normally. > > With the setup noted in the pre

Re: SPARCstation LX boot problem

2001-10-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:07:03AM -0500, Corey Kovacs wrote: > Ben, thanx for the offer of help. > > In my /etc/ethers I have this... > XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX machine.depauw.edu > > where the X's are the hardware address of the ethernet card in the SPARC. > and machine.depauw.edu is the name associat

Re: SPARCstation LX boot problem

2001-10-25 Thread Corey Kovacs
Well I figured out what the problem with the switch I have was, bad cable. Now I can get to the outside world (and other machines on the switch itself) so I should be able to proceed normally. With the setup noted in the previous message I give the openboot command ok boot net ip.of.the.server an

Re: SPARCstation LX boot problem

2001-10-25 Thread Moritz Bunkus
Hi. > The way I understand it is the machine gets it's name from the rarp request > then uses dns to do a lookup and get it's ip address, is that right? My Ultra1 sends out a RARP request with its MAC address and gets its IP address by the RARP server. Than it does a tftp request with its IP addr

Re: SPARCstation LX boot problem

2001-10-25 Thread Corey Kovacs
Ben, thanx for the offer of help. In my /etc/ethers I have this... XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX machine.depauw.edu where the X's are the hardware address of the ethernet card in the SPARC. and machine.depauw.edu is the name associated with the ip I want to give it in dns. The way I understand it is the mach

Re: 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011024 22:33]: > sorry but whats vger? is there an ext3 patch for 2.4.13? http://vger.samba.org/ ... where all the sparc patches go first and then are later merged into Linus's tree. There might be by now... there wasn't last I checked.

asynchronus device / not block device

2001-10-25 Thread Del Campo, Damian
I installed debian potato to a SS2 off of a CDrom. When the installation reboots and starts the package installation, it can't mount the CDrom. It says that the CDrom is "not a block device". What does this mean? Figuring that maybe my CD rom is problem, I watched all the startup messages and not

Re: 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz
init_task.c:7: `INIT_MMAP' undeclared here (not in a function) Now that's a known bug. I don't have the patch on hand, but I know that it is fixed in vger CVS. Try 2.4.13? sorry but whats vger? is there an ext3 patch for 2.4.13? -- Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz, presently intern at Tecnomatix T

Re: 2.4.12

2001-10-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:53:33AM +0200, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote: > > > > >Newer binutils changed the output of --version. If you edit > >arch/sparc64/Makefile, look for the NEW_GAS line, and change --version > >to -V, it will work again. > > > > > >Ben > > > > > Thanks alot Ben, I am wondering