Re: Woody/SS5 upgrade problem

2002-07-25 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:59:55 PDT, Neil Gruending writes: Since named isn't resolving, how can I finish upgrading my system, or do I need to burn a CD and start over? Looks like I lied earlier - I can't ping anything, including localhost! I keep on getting Network is unreachable errors.

Re: Which Sparc is best?

2002-07-25 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:47:15PM -0400, James Fowler typed: First, the binary listed in the email entry refered to below doesn't exist on the server. So, no worries, I will compile it right (it has directions to modify the source). In the old days of the Web FX: creaking joints we

Re: Which Sparc is best?

2002-07-25 Thread Tibor Simko
Hello On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Joshua Uziel wrote: The U5 and U10 are decent machines... moreso on the systems with the 2MB ecache (most of the U10s, and some of the U5s). One problem with those systems is that they have a CMD646U for an EIDE controller... a buggy chipset that Linux deals with

Re: Installing Debian on a Sparc Classic

2002-07-25 Thread Yann Marigo
Hello folks, Hello! Is it possible to install Debian on an old Sparc Classic Workstation ? Yes, I've two Classic running Debian Potato If yes, what for version of Debian ? I do not have tried Woody yet, but it will probably work fine. Use 2.2.20 or 2.2.21 kernel, more is a bit flawless ;-)

Re: Installing Debian on a Sparc Classic

2002-07-25 Thread Andreas Kiraly
Zitiere Yann Marigo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hallo, I do not have tried Woody yet, but it will probably work fine. Use 2.2.20 or 2.2.21 kernel, more is a bit flawless ;-) I use a Sparc Classic as firewall with kernel 2.4.17, no problem. Yes, I think... look here:

Ultra5 with woody and XFree 4.1

2002-07-25 Thread Igor Támara
Hi I upgraded to Woody from 2.2r6, there are plenty of packages useful for that machine, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find a solution for the problem of setting up XFree, I went to an address where someone in the list found a solution with the framebuffer, but it was broken :( .

Re: Ultra5 with woody and XFree 4.1

2002-07-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:32:39PM -0500, Igor T?mara wrote: Hi I upgraded to Woody from 2.2r6, there are plenty of packages useful for that machine, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find a solution for the problem of setting up XFree, I went to an address where someone in the list

Woody, Ultra 10 Creator3D

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Wren \(Sparc-Debian\)
Hi Guys I'm having a problem getting X to work, now that I have upgraded to Woody. running through the config, I set the card as sunffb but then asked for the video cards bus identifier. I understand that the Creator card in not PCI but UPA: Jul 26 01:28:24 i03sw0034 unix: SUNW,ffb0 at

Re: Woody, Ultra 10 Creator3D

2002-07-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 02:14:58AM +0100, Chris Wren (Sparc-Debian) wrote: Hi Guys I'm having a problem getting X to work, now that I have upgraded to Woody. running through the config, I set the card as sunffb but then asked for the video cards bus identifier. I understand that the