Re: Sparc5 woody CDR boot woes

2003-01-27 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:48:11PM +, Taras Ciuriak wrote: > William Law wrote: > >Taras, > > I had similar troubles with my sparc5-110. I found that the first > >CD would not boot properly. I ended up resorting to boot floppies, then > >changing media to the CD for the rest of the instal

Re: Sparc5 woody CDR boot woes

2003-01-27 Thread Roger Burton West
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:48:11PM +, Taras Ciuriak wrote: >Thanks William. Unfortunately, my version of the machine is floppy-less. Your best bet is going to be netbooting. The Sun CD drives of that era are very finicky about the media they'll accept; setting up a tftp/bootp/dhcp server rea

Re: Sparc5 woody CDR boot woes

2003-01-27 Thread Taras Ciuriak
William Law wrote: Taras, I had similar troubles with my sparc5-110. I found that the first CD would not boot properly. I ended up resorting to boot floppies, then changing media to the CD for the rest of the installation. Just a thought :) Drat. Thanks William. Unfortunately, my v

Re: sparc64 and ipsec anyone?

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Morris
In my experience, it's been unusable on anything big-endian. Daniel van Eeden wrote: Is it an sparc64 only problem or is ipsec also unusable on sparc32? Daniel van Eeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 11:06:51AM +0100, Ulrich Wurst wrote: Has anyone of

Re: Sparc5 woody CDR boot woes

2003-01-27 Thread William Law
Taras, I had similar troubles with my sparc5-110. I found that the first CD would not boot properly. I ended up resorting to boot floppies, then changing media to the CD for the rest of the installation. Just a thought :) William

Sparc5 woody CDR boot woes

2003-01-27 Thread Taras Ciuriak
I've been given a redundant Sparcstation 5 free of charge from an old colleague. It's been in almost constant use for the last few years and it booted up normally when I took posession. So, apologies if this is long, but I figure better to provide all the info up front rather than waste time

fix for bug #178465

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel van Eeden
in /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/sun: xkb_keycodes "type6_euro" { include "sun(type6)" = 94; } should be: xkb_keycodes "type6_euro" { include "sun(type6)" = 94; }; (just add the semicolon) -- +-+ | Daniel van Eeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to enable X11?

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel van Eeden
Quote from: http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/805-7763-12/6j7a690su?q=ultra+5&a=view PGX on-board graphics or PGX24 PCI on-board graphics Note - Systems with PGX24 graphics have "PGX24" or "Series 3" printed on the serial number label that is affixed to the front bezel. Daniel van Eeden <[EMAIL PR

RE: How to enable X11?

2003-01-27 Thread Rick Roland
Title: RE: How to enable X11? Thanks for all hints, X is up now! `lspci' was also helpful. Regards, Roland >-Original Message- >From: Costas Magos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:57 PM >To: Rick Roland; 'debian-sparc@lists.debian.org' >Subject: Re: H

Re: How to enable X11?

2003-01-27 Thread Costas Magos
Rick Roland wrote: Thanks for your help! Please excuse following newbie question, cause Debian is a litte different than SuSE or RedHat in this case: How can I restart (what's the binary called) the X setup without the need to go thru the complete `base-config' procedure...? I think what u

Québec : Marché du nautisme

2003-01-27 Thread
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Re: 2.4.20 doesn't boot (watchdog reset)

2003-01-27 Thread Paul Hedderly
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:19:22AM +0100, Varga Daniel (QI/SSC) * wrote: > > I have initrd only as module, so I think it's not active by default, right? > Still, I have the same error as described above with 2.4.20. With initrd as > module in 2.4.17 it works. :-O Erm what use is initrd as a modul

Re: How to enable X11?

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel van Eeden
Rick Roland wrote: I am a Debian newbie, but it's a realy interessting Linux distribution to me, because it's running also on SPARC. And not only SPARCit's the only universal OS. The installation in general was without any problems, I also added X and the GUIs but now I have a real problem

Re: How to enable X11?

2003-01-27 Thread Costas Magos
>(II) SUNFFB: driver for Creator, Creator 3D and Elite 3D >(EE) No devices detected. Your are using the wrong driver. The driver that is loaded when X starts corresponds to Creator which most probably is not your case. I am not experienced with ultra5 machines so i am not sure which is the righ

How to enable X11?

2003-01-27 Thread Rick Roland
Hi all I am a Debian newbie, but it's a realy interessting Linux distribution to me, because it's running also on SPARC. The installation in general was without any problems, I also added X and the GUIs but now I have a real problem to start the X server (startx). My hardware is an Ultra 5, with

Re: sparc64 and ipsec anyone?

2003-01-27 Thread Ulrich Wurst
"Daniel van Eeden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is it an sparc64 only problem or is ipsec also unusable on sparc32? > I think it is only an sparc64 Problem. Since sparc64 uses a 64 bit Kernel and 32 bit Userland there has to be a translater 32/64 bit in ioctl